Jacqueline Bobo

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Jacqueline Bobo
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Known forBlack Women as Cultural Readers (1996)

Jacqueline Bobo is Chair and Associate Professor of Women's Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. [1] Bobo has been recognized as an "internationally renowned writer" and black feminist scholar. [2]

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Education

Bobo earned her undergraduate degree from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1971, her Masters in 1980 at San Francisco State University, and her PhD in film and television at the University of Oregon in 1989. [1]

Career

Bobo has worked on studying the response of Black women for films such as Daughters of the Dust , The Color Purple , Gone with the Wind , Civil Brand , To Kill a Mockingbird, and Claudine. She interviewed a group of selected Black women and asked them how they felt about their portrayal in the 1985 film The Color Purple. [3] [4] She has analyzed the language used in media representing Black women and how it has changed within the last century. [5] Bobo's observations contextualize the historical aspects perceived in these media outlets. [5] Bobo's work in Black Women as Cultural Readers is regarded as a "seminal stud[y] helping critics and other readers better understand large groups of women who have heretofore been made invisible in academia". [2]

In Black Feminist Cultural Criticism, Bobo's essays explore multiple perspectives on black feminist cultural studies, both from an academic perspective and an everyday perspective. Bobo's writings have been compared to Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center, written by bell hooks, as both works explore black feminist theory: "Each author contributes to a collective project of feminist canon formation and points toward the future of scholarship by and about black women." [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Jacqueline Bobo (faculty profile)". Department of Feminist Studies. University of California Santa Barbara. Retrieved February 21, 2020.
  2. 1 2 Marshall, Carmen Rose (24 January 2015). Black Professional Women in Recent American Fiction. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 29. ISBN   9780786481224 . Retrieved 15 September 2015.
  3. ↑ Bobo, Jacqueline (Spring 1989). "Sifting Through the Controversy: Reading The Color Purple". Callaloo (39): 332–342. doi:10.2307/2931568. JSTOR   2931568.
  4. ↑ Penrice, Ronda Racha (2010-12-17). "'The Color Purple' 25 years later: From controversy to classic". TheGrio . Retrieved 2020-02-20.
  5. 1 2 Bobo, Jacqueline (1998). Black Women as Cultural Readers. pp. 91–97.
  6. ↑ Lamothe, Daphne (Summer 2005). "Review: Black Feminist Cultural Criticism by Jacqueline Bobo: Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks: Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by bell hooks". Signs . 30 (4): 2265–2270. doi:10.1086/429809 . Retrieved 15 September 2023.
  7. ↑ Weissenberg, Clare (August 1996). Journal of American Studies . 30 (2): 318–320. doi:10.1017/S0021875800027389. JSTOR   27556148. S2CID   145640331.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  8. ↑ Pinson, Hermine (1998). Signs . 23 (4): 1066–1068. doi:10.1086/495302. JSTOR   3175204.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  9. ↑ Pamaggiore, Maria (1996). NWSA Journal . 8 (2): 130. JSTOR   4316446.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  10. ↑ Mask, Mia L. (1998). Cinéaste . 24 (1): 91. JSTOR   41689127.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  11. ↑ Foster, Gwendolyn (1999). Film Quarterly . 53 (1): 46–47. doi:10.2307/3697215. JSTOR   3697215.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
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