Graduation Year
2017
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Legal Studies
Reader 1
Mark Golub
Reader 2
Warren Liu
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© 2016 ReAndra R. Johnson
Abstract
The author raises the question of what black women do to resist acts taken by the government to control their bodies such as the welfare queen trope. Many authors demonstrate that the welfare queen is used to control black women as a labor force as well as their reproduction. An infrapolitical reading of black hair tutorials is done to analyze the ways that black hair care is a form of political resistance. Robin Kelley's use of infrapolitics to understand actions taken by working class black people is used as a model.
Recommended Citation
Johnson, ReAndra, "Communities of Resistance: Welfare Queens and the Infrapolitics of Black Hair Tutorials on Youtube" (2017). Scripps Senior Theses. 918.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/918
