Beyond the Beauty Salon: Sport, Women of Color and Their Hair

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dc.contributor.advisorSchultz, Jaimeen_US
dc.contributor.authorCollins, Jennifer Elizabethen_US
dc.contributor.departmentKinesiologyen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2011-07-08T05:35:13Z
dc.date.available2011-07-08T05:35:13Z
dc.date.issued2011en_US
dc.description.abstractResearch 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.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/11782
dc.subject.pqcontrolledKinesiologyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledWomen's Studiesen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledBlack Studiesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledblack hairen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledmethodologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledphysical cultural studiesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledreflexivityen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledsporten_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledwomenen_US
dc.titleBeyond the Beauty Salon: Sport, Women of Color and Their Hairen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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