Analyzes the portrayal of blacks in the magazine Vistazo, one of the most popular publications of Ecuador, since the year of its creation in 1957 until the year 1991. Mainstains that the construction of the Ecuadorian national identity deprives humanity in representation of African-Ecuadorians in favor of appreciation and exaltation of Euro-Ecuadorians and, secondarily, the white-mestizo
Focuses on the Aunt Jemima stereotype of African womanhood and motherhood. Impact of the stereotype on African Caribbean women whose lives have been obscured by this image; Discussion on how a re-invented Aunt Jemima is reflected in the religious symbols of the Spiritual Baptists Church in Toronto, Ontario and the religious lives of individual women; Examination of the symbolic reinterpretation of Aunt Jemima within the everyday lives of immigrant African Caribbean women in Toronto.;
An essay is presented on tropicalized and touristic imagery in colonial photographs and its impact on black histories. It offers critiques on current uses of old touristic postcards as it offers unproblematic historical evidence. It examines the ways in which black inhabitants resisted and critiqued this tropicalization of the islands with an account on how a swimming pool became a site of political protest against tourism's demand for a picturesque and disciplined black population.
"This study, conducted at a historically Black university, evaluated the impact of awareness and internalization of the Western thin ideal of beauty on body dissatisfaction, drive for thinness, and bulimia in African-American, African, and Caribbean women. The relationship between internalization of the thin ideal and disordered eating was moderated by ethnicity, with the relationship significant only for the African-American grou Internalization functioned as a mediator between awareness of the thin ideal and both drive for thinness and bulimia, but only for the African-American grou These results suggest that the sociocultural model may not be as valuable in predicting eating disturbance in women from non-Western societies." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR];
