Consumer culture and ‘black is beautiful’ in apartheid South Africa and early postcolonial Kenya

Thomas, Lynn M.

doi:10.1080/00020184.2018.1540530

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“…Although this article did not focus on visual expressions of Black Power, this methodology would benefit African and African diaspora studies. See Ivaska (2011); Markle (2017); Thomas (2019); Diawara (2002).…”

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Black Power, Raw Soul, and Race in Ghana

Okuda

2023

Afr. Stud. Rev.

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In the late 1960s, Ghanaians joined the global conversation about Black Power. Despite the absence of President Nkrumah and attempts to dampen local interest in radical political movements, young Ghanaian students, musicians, and audience members were well informed of the global implications of white supremacy. Okuda examines how Ghanaians expanded the legacy of Black Power into an African context, seizing opportunities to connect with African Americans via popular media, exchange programs, and soul music to show their solidarity with the fight against racist policies and practices abroad and to stay vigilant against neo-imperialism at home.

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Black Power, Raw Soul, and Race in Ghana

Okuda

2023

Afr. Stud. Rev.

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Entrenched Coloniality? Colonial-Born Black Women, Hair and Identity in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Le Roux,

Oyedemi

2023

African Studies

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Labyrinth of feminine beauty: onnagata in modern Japanese advertising

Minowa

2024

JHRM

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Purpose This study aims to examine the construction of feminine beauty by onnagata kabuki actors in Japan’s history, with a focus on their narratives in modern advertorials about beauty products. The objective is to identify emerging themes in their narratives and to analyze the symbolism and rhetoric used to persuade the audience to enhance traditional feminine “beauty” by using the specific brand in the wake of Japan’s modernization and Westernization. Design/methodology/approach The study primarily employs semiotic analysis of advertorials in the newspaper and in the kabuki theatre’s program. They are supplemented with images from premodern prints. Visual content is described and analyzed as well. Findings The narration of the onnagata in the advertorial is the process of “truth-telling,” where the primary concern of the storyteller is persuasion about truth, such as belief in the new method of makeup with the advertised brand, and falsehood, such as belief in the old method of skincare. Four themes and binary oppositions of values emerged from the data: (1) Identity: selves vs others; (2) Material objects, cosmetics: scientific vs primitive; (3) Practice: competent vs incompetent, and (4) Transformations: intentional vs incidental. Originality/value The research shows that Japan’s onnagata transvestism tradition and its influences on women’s beauty practice have existed since the premodern period, preceding contemporary cross-gender beauty practices observed in social media.

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Consumer culture and ‘black is beautiful’ in apartheid South Africa and early postcolonial Kenya

Cited by 4 publications

References 32 publications

Black Power, Raw Soul, and Race in Ghana

Black Power, Raw Soul, and Race in Ghana

Entrenched Coloniality? Colonial-Born Black Women, Hair and Identity in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Labyrinth of feminine beauty: onnagata in modern Japanese advertising

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