Black feminists promote decolonization as a strategy to recuperate Black women’s dignity and humanity from racist colonialist ideologies. In order to fully explore Black women’s emancipation, Black feminists have to explicitly consider how Black women break away from the ways in which thick Black female bodies have been defined by dominant white colonial cultures, and how Black women of different ethnicities engage in their own recovery of voluptuous Black female bodies. In this paper, I use a Black feminist intersectional lens to explore the ways in which Black Caribbean women recuperate thick Black female bodies from colonialist and racist ideologies. Specifically, using focus groups, I examine how these women participate in what I refer to as emancipatory thick body politics, discourses that challenge and resist the dehumanization of thick Black female bodies. Findings indicate that Black Caribbean women actively participate in decolonizing thick Black female bodies by forming sisterhood communities with other Black Caribbean women, re-defining womanhood, and engaging in transgressive interpretations of Christian doctrine.

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“可怕而奇妙的制作”：加勒比黑人女性和黑人女性厚实身体的非殖民化

黑人女权主义者提倡非殖民化，以此作为从种族主义殖民主义意识形态中恢复黑人妇女尊严和人性的策略。为了充分探讨黑人女性的解放，黑人女权主义者必须明确思考黑人女性如何摆脱主流白人殖民文化对黑人女性厚实身体的定义，以及不同种族的黑人女性如何进行自我恢复。性感的黑人女性身体。在本文中，我使用黑人女权主义的交叉镜头来探索加勒比黑人女性如何从殖民主义和种族主义意识形态中恢复粗壮的黑人女性身体。具体来说，通过焦点小组，我研究了这些女性如何参与我所说的解放厚身体政治，挑战和抵制黑人女性厚实身体的非人化的话语。调查结果表明，加勒比黑人妇女通过与其他加勒比黑人妇女组成姐妹社区、重新定义女性身份以及参与对基督教教义的越界解释，积极参与非殖民化黑人女性的身体。