Branding Black Womanhood: Media Citizenship from Black Power to Black Girl Magic Tounsel Timeka N.
Branding Black Womanhood: Media Citizenship from Black Power to Black Girl Magic Tounsel Timeka N. CaShawn Thompson crafted Black Girls Are Magic as a proclamation of Black women's resilience in…
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Branding Black Womanhood: Media Citizenship from Black Power to Black Girl Magic Tounsel Timeka N.
CaShawn Thompson crafted Black Girls Are Magic as a proclamation of Black women's resilience in 2013. Branding Black Womanhood: Media Citizenship from Black Power to Black Girl Magic examines the commercial infrastructure that absorbed Thompson's mantra. Less than five years later, it had been repurposed as a gateway to an attractive niche market.
Tounsel examines the individuals and institutions that have reconfigured Black women's empowerment as a business enterprise. While the terminology may have changed over the years, mainstream brands and mass media companies have consistently sought to acknowledge Black women's possession of a distinct magic or power when it suits their profit agendas.Beginning with the inception of the Essence brand in the late 1960s, Timeka N. Ultimately, these commercial gatekeepers have constructed an image economy that operates as both a