Out for Glamour in Africa
Out for Glamour in Africa critically reflects on how Black women utilized Drum magazine, a leading publication in Africa during the era of independence, for political empowerment and constructing notions of Black femininity. Wanjirũ G. Mbure terms the concept of femme urbAfricana , a model of Black...
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| description | Out for Glamour in Africa critically reflects on how Black women utilized Drum magazine, a leading publication in Africa during the era of independence, for political empowerment and constructing notions of Black femininity. Wanjirũ G. Mbure terms the concept of femme urbAfricana , a model of Black femininity depicted as urban, political, fashionable, paradoxically Afrocentric, heteronormative, and transnational. Foregrounding stories of the women who embodied these traits and the social, political, and economic forces that shaped their presence in Drum , Mbure argues that these representations of Black women from Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, and the United States produced a novel form of Black urban femininity. Utilizing a breadth of archival materials from cover girl photographs, advertisements, and columns, to readers’ comments, Mbure reveals the complex relationship between the Black urban woman and the era’s contested ideals within a transnational matrix. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1771742026-06-06T05:05:40Z Out for Glamour in Africa Mbure, Wanjiru G. Drum magazine African American African American women Black women Black magazines Transnationalism Beauty ideals South Africa Beauty pageants South African townships Advertising and Black women Black marketing Black beauty pageants African women in film Black Caribbean women Pan-African movement Black female jazz artists East African women Black writers in Drum Literary writing in South Africa Femme urbAfricana Ebony Magazine thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHH African history thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies Out for Glamour in Africa critically reflects on how Black women utilized Drum magazine, a leading publication in Africa during the era of independence, for political empowerment and constructing notions of Black femininity. Wanjirũ G. Mbure terms the concept of femme urbAfricana , a model of Black femininity depicted as urban, political, fashionable, paradoxically Afrocentric, heteronormative, and transnational. Foregrounding stories of the women who embodied these traits and the social, political, and economic forces that shaped their presence in Drum , Mbure argues that these representations of Black women from Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, and the United States produced a novel form of Black urban femininity. Utilizing a breadth of archival materials from cover girl photographs, advertisements, and columns, to readers’ comments, Mbure reveals the complex relationship between the Black urban woman and the era’s contested ideals within a transnational matrix. 2026-06-06T05:05:38Z 2026-06-06T05:05:38Z 2026-06-05T14:12:32Z 2026 book book ONIX_20260605T151934_9780472905881_3 http://www.press.umich.edu https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/113956 9780472905881 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/177174 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/113956/1/9780472905881.pdf Michigan State University Press University of Michigan Press 10.3998/mpub.13107428 10.3998/mpub.13107428 aa7f6664-5117-41d8-90f8-c3af56526b92 9780472905881 University of Michigan Press 268 open access |
| spellingShingle | Drum magazine African American African American women Black women Black magazines Transnationalism Beauty ideals South Africa Beauty pageants South African townships Advertising and Black women Black marketing Black beauty pageants African women in film Black Caribbean women Pan-African movement Black female jazz artists East African women Black writers in Drum Literary writing in South Africa Femme urbAfricana Ebony Magazine thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHH African history thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies Mbure, Wanjiru G. Out for Glamour in Africa |
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| topic | Drum magazine African American African American women Black women Black magazines Transnationalism Beauty ideals South Africa Beauty pageants South African townships Advertising and Black women Black marketing Black beauty pageants African women in film Black Caribbean women Pan-African movement Black female jazz artists East African women Black writers in Drum Literary writing in South Africa Femme urbAfricana Ebony Magazine thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHH African history thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies |
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