Gentles-Peart, Kamille, <br/><br/>
Romance with voluptuousness :  Caribbean women and thick bodies in the United States / 
Kamille Gentles-Peart. 
 - Lincoln :  University of Nebraska Press,  (c)2016. 
 - 1 online resource. 
 - Expanding frontiers: interdisciplinary approaches to studies of women, gender, and sexuality .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>The "thick black woman": racialized body politics and the marginalization of black women --  Constructing diasporic identity: black Caribbean women's self-representation and cultural citizenship --  Unrequited romance: black Caribbean beauty ideals and discontent in the United States --  Transgressive discourses: negotiating the thin hegemony and negative physical capital --  Embodying diaspora: centering thick bodies in black women's diasporic experiences. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780803295131 9780803295155 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women, Black--Caribbean Area.<br/>Women immigrants--United States.<br/>Caribbean Americans--Cultural assimilation.<br/>Body image--United States.<br/>Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)--United States.<br/>Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)--Caribbean Area.<br/>Racism--United States.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HQ1501  / .R663 2016