Reinventing Black Womanhood: Alternative Media and Identity Discourse in the 2019 Chicago Mayoral Race
Document Type
Peer-Reviewed Article
Publication Date
2023
Abstract
This paper examines how a Chicago-based alternative medium covered the 2019 Chicago’s mayoral race. The study uses critical discourse analysis and the theory of Black feminism to argue for the need to examine the multiple identities of Black women and how such identities determine their representation in socio-cultural and political spaces. The findings from this study show that agency is a major part of media coverage and that the identities of Black women are better represented when the women are portrayed as agents in their own stories. These findings provide an alternative narrative to the discourse of Black womanhood which has been racialized and perverted.
Recommended Citation
Afolabi, O. (2023). Reinventing Black Womanhood: Alternative Media and Identity Discourse in the 2019 Chicago Mayoral Race. Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research, 21(1), 6.
