Overview
- This work acknowledges the prevailing ideologies around Black, fat females in traditional media and now within the social media age
- The authors’ analysis demonstrates the value of studying popular culture, especially artifacts created by and exhibiting Black women
- This work can be used as a primary or supplementary text for courses and research related to race, gender, and/or body size
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in (Re)Presenting Gender (PSRG)
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Reviews
— Jayne Raisborough, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, Leeds Beckett University, UK, and author of Fat Bodies, Health and the Media (2016)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Niya Pickett Miller, Ph.D., is a public speaker and post-doctoral Assistant Professor of Communication Studies in the Department of Communication and Media at Samford University, USA. Her forthcoming edited book (2021) titled, #Verzuz and Club Quarantine: Sustaining Black Music and Black Culture During COVID-19 features curated studies of Black cultural expression and communication through live streamed music on Instagram during the COVID-19 pandemic. Her 2020 book, Deconstructing Albinism as the Other, explores the visual tropes of people with albinism in American popular culture.
Gheni N. Platenburg, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the School of Communication and Journalism at Auburn University, USA, where she teaches multimedia journalism courses. Her research interests primarily fall at the intersection of race and media. Her co-authored research has been published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Black Studies. Currently, she works as a freelance journalist for The Washington Post Talent Network.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Lizzo’s Black, Female, and Fat Resistance
Authors: Niya Pickett Miller, Gheni N. Platenburg
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in (Re)Presenting Gender
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73762-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73761-0Published: 30 April 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73764-1Published: 30 April 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-73762-7Published: 29 April 2021
Series ISSN: 2662-9364
Series E-ISSN: 2662-9372
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 72
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Media and Communication, Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime, Music, Celebrity Studies, Popular Culture