Sökning: "African-American history"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 16 uppsatser innehållade orden African-American history.

  1. 1. Rasism i USA genom två konstnärer och deras kritikers ögon : Hur Philip Guston och Henry Taylor uppmärksammar förtryck mot afroamerikaner och hur de har bemötts av kritiker och konstnärliga institutioner

    Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Konstvetenskapliga institutionen

    Författare :Ziggy Lindholm; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Art history; semiotics; signs; oppression; reception; Philip Guston; Henry Taylor; KKK; self-portrait; history; racism; interpretation; Konstvetenskap; semiotik; tecken; förtryck; reception; Philip Guston; Henry Taylor; KKK; självporträtt; historia; rasism; tolkning;

    Sammanfattning : This essay investigates how Philip Guston and Henry Taylor explore the subject of African American oppression in their art and how they have been received by critics and art institutions. Using semiotics based on Hans Haydens article “Den omplacerade koden: Om Edgar Degas Interiör”, this essay explores how meaning is created in signs existing within the respective artists’ works. LÄS MER

  3. 2. The "Black Butterflies": Color in God Help the Child and the Inverted White Gaze

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Författare :Claudia Bern; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Chromatism; Dark Beauty; Ebony-Black Beauty; White Beauty; Black Skin; Blue-Black Skin; Afro-textured Hair; Black Color; White Mask; Slavery; Race Prejudice; Black Identity; Toni Morrison; God Help the Child; Africanist in Literature; Black Beauty in Media; Whiteness; Inverted White Gaze; White Gaze; Black Gaze.; Languages and Literatures;

    Sammanfattning : The discourse on beauty has primarily been focused on the white gaze to prescribe its normative standards. The white gaze conceptualizes the way in which beauty is dwelled on within society: the foisting of Caucasian-looking beauty canons on black women, and the veneration of whiteness as superior. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Effekter av colorism pa vardagsliv och arbets- och anställningsmöjligheter för människor i Thailand: : Kvalitativ intervjustudie på thailandares upplevelser av colorism och light-skin privilege

    Kandidat-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Författare :Sasikan Granberg; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Colorism; Southeast Asia; Skin Color; Whiteness Standard; Light-skin privilege; Employment Opportunities; colorism; Sydostasien; hudfärg; vithetsnorm; light-skin privilege; arbets- och anställningsmöjligheter;

    Sammanfattning : Colorism defines the phenomenon of social hierarchy based on gradations of skin tones within and between groups. This has resulted in a preferential treatment towards light-hued individuals while dark-hued individuals are experiencing discrimination and disadvantage which is referred to as Light-skin privilege. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Att inkludera historia i jazzdansundervisning : Relationen mellan den praktiska undervisningen och jazzdansens historia

    Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms konstnärliga högskola/Institutionen för danspedagogik

    Författare :Paulina Gunnarsson; [2021]
    Nyckelord :Danspedagogik. Dans; Lärande; dansutbildning;

    Sammanfattning : This study investigates how jazz educators relate their practical dance teaching to the history of the genre and analyses whether or not the history is incorporated in the didactic part of the education for a jazz dancer. This thesis is based on interviews with four active jazz dance teachers. LÄS MER

  7. 5. "Do you want to help them" Analyzing the representation of African Americans in Expressen's news reports of 53 youths from Chicago visiting Stockholm in 1966

    Kandidat-uppsats, Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Författare :Keenan Allen; [2019]
    Nyckelord :Representation; African Americans; Swedes; Stereotype; Discourse;

    Sammanfattning : This study is a qualitative content analysis, aiming to analyze the representation of African Americans in reports made by the Swedish newspaper Expressen, covering a journey with 53 youths from Chicago to Stockholm in 1966. This study has a critical approach to understanding how preferred meanings were reproduced in Expressen’s representation of the African American participants. LÄS MER