“W”: Women in Afropop Entertainment At the Intersection of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Culture

Author

Coreen Robledo, CUNY Hunter CollegeFollow

Date of Award

Spring 1-6-2023

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Fine Arts (MFA)

Department

Dance

First Advisor

Maura Nguyen Donohue

Second Advisor

Blakeley White-McGuire

Academic Program Adviser

Maura Nguyen Donohue

Abstract

Performing artist uses a personal and historical viewpoint as a catalyst to discuss some women's challenges in the Afropop and African entertainment by offering social, patriarchal, cultural, and sexual contexts that the writer argues construct the images, reputations, decision-making, and circumstances of Brown and Black women in the entertainment industry.

Recommended Citation

Robledo, Coreen, "“W”: Women in Afropop Entertainment At the Intersection of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Culture" (2023). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_sas_etds/982