Author: Olumide, Yetunde Mercy
Publisher: Langaa RPCIG
ISBN: 9956763683
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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Skin-lightening is currently one of the most common forms of potentially harmful body modification practices in the world and African women are among some of the most widely represented users of skin-lightening products. The overall objective of this book is to provide up-to-date evidence-based recommendations for reducing the global burden of cosmetic skin bleaching and preventing injuries related to skin bleaching in sub-Saharan Africa and Africans in diaspora. The book aims to: offer an appraisal of all relevant literature on cosmetic bleaching practices to-date, focusing on any key developments; identify and address important medical, public health issues as well as historical, genetic, psychosocial, cultural, behavioural, socioeconomic, political, institutional and environmental determinants; provide guideline recommendations that would help attenuate the burden and possibly eliminate the injuries related to skin bleaching; discuss potential developments and future directions.
Author: Olumide, Yetunde Mercy
Publisher: Langaa RPCIG
ISBN: 995676356X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 774
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Skin-lightening is currently one of the most common forms of potentially harmful body modification practices in the world and African women are among some of the most widely represented users of skin-lightening products. The overall objective of this book is to provide up-to-date evidence-based recommendations for reducing the global burden of cosmetic skin bleaching and preventing injuries related to skin bleaching in sub-Saharan Africa and Africans in diaspora. The book aims to: offer an appraisal of all relevant literature on cosmetic bleaching practices to-date, focusing on any key developments; identify and address important medical, public health issues as well as historical, genetic, psychosocial, cultural, behavioural, socioeconomic, political, institutional and environmental determinants; provide guideline recommendations that would help attenuate the burden and possibly eliminate the injuries related to skin bleaching; discuss potential developments and future directions.
Author: Awa Thiam
Publisher: Frontline Distribution International
ISBN: 9780948390098
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 139
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Languages : en
Pages : 180
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EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.
Author: Cecil Brown
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
ISBN: 1556435738
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 161
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***WINNER, 2008 PEN Oakland - Josephine Miles National Literary Award Blacks have been vanishing from college campuses in the United States and reappearing in prisons, videos, and movies. Cecil Brown tackles this unwitting "disappearing act" head on, paying special attention to the situation at UC Berkeley and the University of California system generally. Brown contends that educators have ignored the importance of the oral tradition in African American upbringing, an oversight mirrored by the media. When these students take exams, their abilities are not tested. Further, university officials, administrators, professors, and students are ignoring the phenomenon of the disappearing black student – in both their admissions and hiring policies. With black studies departments shifting the focus from African American and black community interests to black immigrant issues, says Brown, the situation is becoming dire. Dude, Where’s My Black Studies Department? offers both a scorching critique and a plan for rethinking and reform of a crucial but largely unacknowledged problem in contemporary society.
Author: Peter Limb
Publisher: Hans Zell Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Identifies over 4,000 information sources on the 80-year struggle against segregation and apartheid in South Africa, focusing on the relationship between the main opposition party and black worker organizations, in which its main support lay. Cites and briefly describes or summarizes books and artic
Author: University of Wisconsin System. Women's Studies Librarian
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Category : Feminism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Author: G. K. Hall and Co. Staff
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN: 9780783820521
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Author: Marta Caminero-Santangelo
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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In this work, the subversive madwoman first appropriated by feminist theorists and critics is re-evaluated. How, the author asks, can such a figure be subversive if she's effectively imprisoned, silent and unseen? Taking issue with a prominent strand of current feminist literary criticism, Caminero-Santangelo identifies a counternarrative in writing by women in the last half of the 20th century, one which rejects madness, even as a symbolic resolution.
