Abstract

How do Black women engulf themselves in the politics of being and becoming through everyday existence, aesthetics and media practices in creative, pleasurable, diasporic and resistant ways? How is the hegemony of North America, Eurocentrism, anti-Blackness and sexism implicated in this? We consider such questions in relation to Black women's media and aesthetic practices, and their related scholarship, by examining the Ghana-based web series An African City. Our work echoes calls for the decentering of media and communication studies rooted in white and Western perspectives but positioned as “universal.” We explore Black women's experiences (in Britain, the United States, Ghana, and Nigeria) as active producers in their communities; beyond the dominant epistemological hierarchy of whiteness in contrast with Blackness. Framing visual communication as a community-based source of self-expression, we emphasize the liberatory possibilities of aesthetics (fashion and screen depictions) for Black women, while tarrying with how capitalism constrains such radical potential.

中文翻译：

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一个非洲城市：黑人妇女的创造力，愉悦感，与外界的联系和通过美学和媒体实践以及奖学金获得的抵抗

摘要

黑人妇女如何通过创造性，愉悦，流离失所和抗拒的方式，通过日常生存，美学和媒体实践，将自己融入存在和成为的政治中？北美霸权，欧洲中心主义，反黑人和性别歧视如何与之相关？通过研究基于加纳的网络系列《非洲城市》，我们考虑了与黑人女性的媒体和审美习惯及其相关奖学金有关的此类问题。。我们的工作呼应了呼吁以白人和西方观点为根基但被定位为“通用”的媒体和传播研究的偏心。我们探索黑人妇女（在英国，美国，加纳和尼日利亚）作为社区积极生产者的经历；与黑度相比，白度超越了主要的认识论体系。我们将视觉交流视为基于社区的自我表达的来源，在强调资本主义如何限制这种激进潜力的同时，我们强调了黑人女性的美学（时尚和屏幕描绘）的解放可能性。