Black Caribbean woman

UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)

Sheena Leeann Rose (Creator)

Institution

The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )

Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/

Advisor

Chris Cassidy

Abstract: My thesis work, Black Caribbean Woman is about how I understand my race, culture and gender. Yes, the title seems direct but there are a lot of complexities and layers in this work. I been questioning and investigating of my cultural identity as a woman from Barbados, since living in the States. Honestly, I thought everyone that was black in America was clearly African American. But I was wrong and was very confused of this reality. I discovered that African American is not just a race but also a culture and I am not African American. I asked myself many times, who am I? What am I? And I decided to do my own research about my race, culture and gender and therefore called this work Black Caribbean Woman. I grew up in Barbados, listening in one ear to how the British colonize Barbados heavily and in the other influence to the pop media influences that poured in from American media, and sometimes forgot my culture. I am torn between the two. Growing up as a child, I watched lots of 1950’s TV shows and as an adult, I realized that there are no positive images of the black figures in TV shows at the time. Working from this acknowledgement, I wanted to see what would happen if I perform as the star of a vintage American Hollywood production.I decided to create a soap opera called “Finally I Love Myself,” and share this work on social media. Working with questions and my own ideas about it means to be a black Caribbean woman; I knew I would be facing racial and gender stereotypes and clichés of women’s roles in the media. This body of work has helped me and continues to help me understand more about myself by sharing my personal experiences and private thoughts with the public. Simultaneously, I am seeing how the narrative of black Caribbean woman unfolds.

Black Caribbean woman
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Publication

Thesis

Language: English

Date: 2016

Keywords

Barbados, Black, Caribbean, Characters, Performance, Woman

Subjects

Performance art

Gender identity in art

Group identity in art

Race in art

Women, Black $z Caribbean Area

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