The Flame That Both Illuminates and Burns: The Diva in Review

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Notes

Melissa Harris-Perry, Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes and Black Women in America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011).

Darlene Clarke Hine, “Rape and the Inner Lives of Black Women in the Middle West: Preliminary Thoughts on the Culture of Dissemblance,” Signs, 4 (Summer 1989): 912–920.

Therí Pickens, “Divas Live Among Us.” Rev. of Tipping on a Tightrope: Divas in African American Literature by Aisha Lockridge and Dissonant Divas: The Limits of La Onda by Deborah Vargas. Disability Studies Quarterly 33.2 (2013).

Daphne Brooks, Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850–1910. (North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2006).

Erin D. Chapman, Prove it On Me: New Negroes, Sex, Popular Culture in the 1920s (Oxford University Press, 2012).

Candice M. Jenkins, Private Lives, Public Relations: Regulating Black Intimacy (University of Minnesota Press, 2007).

Pickens, “Divas Live Among Us.”.

Barbara Smith, “Toward a Black Feminist Criticism” in The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender and Freedom (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2000).

Harris-Perry, Sister Citizen, 4.