How the history of the diasporic black body in American art, athleticism, and performance resonates in daily life.
How the history of the diasporic black body in American art, athleticism, and performance resonates in daily life.
How the history of the diasporic black body in American art, athleticism, and performance resonates in daily life.
Harvey Young shines a spotlight on spectacular acts of racial violence, from racial profiling to lynchings, showing how African Americans have employed performance to respond to the intrusion of such events into their daily lives.
In 1901, George Ward, a lynching victim, was attacked, murdered, and dismembered by a mob of white men, women, and children. As his lifeless body burned in a fire, enterprising white youth cut off his toes and, later, his fingers and sold them as souvenirs. In Embodying Black Ex…
How the history of the diasporic black body in American art, athleticism, and performance resonates in daily life.
An overview of psychological and cultural research and theory / James Gray and Rebecca Ginsberg -- Muscularity and masculinity in America: a historical review / Lynne Luciano -- Size matters: connecting subculture to culture in bodybuilding / Alan Klein -- The drive for muscular…
"In the past decade, societal and interpersonal pressures to attain a heightened level of muscular development have increased exponentially. This book is an attempt to coalesce recent developments into an organized framework to help guide theory, research, and practice in this i…
"In the past decade, societal and interpersonal pressures to attain a heightened level of muscular development have increased exponentially. This book is an attempt to coalesce recent developments into an organized framework to help guide theory, research, and practice in this i…
"In the past decade, societal and interpersonal pressures to attain a heightened level of muscular development have increased exponentially. This book is an attempt to coalesce recent developments into an organized framework to help guide theory, research, and practice in this i…
"In the past decade, societal and interpersonal pressures to attain a heightened level of muscular development have increased exponentially. This book is an attempt to coalesce recent developments into an organized framework to help guide theory, research, and practice in this i…
Bodies and Culture is a collection of contemporary interdisciplinary research on bodies from emerging scholars in the humanities and social sciences disciplines and addresses issues relating to a range of historical and contemporary contexts, theories, and methods. Examining the…
The current 'obesity epidemic' has been at the top of the national and, increasingly, global public agenda for the last decade - the subject of extensive and intensive concern, scrutiny, and corrective efforts from various quarters. In the United States, much of this attention i…