Beyond the Beauty Salon: Sport, Women of Color and Their Hair
dc.contributor.advisor | Schultz, Jaime | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Collins, Jennifer Elizabeth | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Kinesiology | en_US |
dc.contributor.publisher | Digital Repository at the University of Maryland | en_US |
dc.contributor.publisher | University of Maryland (College Park, Md.) | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-07-08T05:35:13Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-07-08T05:35:13Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2011 | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Research concerning women of color in sport tends to center around several topics: barriers to participation, racial stereotyping, symbolic annihilation, and the intersecting axes of power that influence their involvement and representation. Furthermore, while there exists a rich body of literature that hair has inspired in black feminist scholarship, these works have overlooked the experiences of black female athletes. In this project I seek to bridge these two bodies of knowledge through focus groups and personal interviews with black female collegiate athletes. Specifically, I examine three issues related to hair in the context of black women's athletic experiences: 1) as a particular racialized, gendered, and sexualized expression of self; 2) as a signifier of "other" in sport and society; and 3) as a possible cultural barrier to specific athletic endeavors. By bridging the disconnect between the two fields, I will address the ways that hair is an embodied cultural form influencing the physical culture of women of color. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1903/11782 | |
dc.subject.pqcontrolled | Kinesiology | en_US |
dc.subject.pqcontrolled | Women's Studies | en_US |
dc.subject.pqcontrolled | Black Studies | en_US |
dc.subject.pquncontrolled | black hair | en_US |
dc.subject.pquncontrolled | methodology | en_US |
dc.subject.pquncontrolled | physical cultural studies | en_US |
dc.subject.pquncontrolled | reflexivity | en_US |
dc.subject.pquncontrolled | sport | en_US |
dc.subject.pquncontrolled | women | en_US |
dc.title | Beyond the Beauty Salon: Sport, Women of Color and Their Hair | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
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