Material Type  

 학위논문

 

0017162706

Date and Time of Latest Transaction  

20250211152044

ISBN  

9798383690734

DDC  

384

Author  

Taylor, Zari Alyssa.

Title/Author  

TikTok as an App Is Not Friendly to Black Creators: Beauty Capital, Ideal Influencers, and Techno-Minstrelsy on Social Media.

Publish Info  

[S.l.] : The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill., 2024

Publish Info  

Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024

Material Info  

196 p.

General Note  

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-02, Section: A.

General Note  

Advisor: Silva, Kumarini.

학위논문주기  

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2024.

Abstracts/Etc  

요약This dissertation examines racial dynamics of the creator economy in the United States. Specifically, I focus on the issue of Black content theft and appropriation-what has been called techno-minstrelsy. While minstrel shows have a specific history in American and Western popular culture, newer technologies enable the continuation of practices of appropriation in online spaces that reproduce racialized economic logics. I'm interested in how "ideal" white users can copy and perform racialized aesthetics - playing on America's appetite for Black culture while continuing to reject the Black people. I frame this historical practice within Beauty capital, which theorizes the importance, economic capacity, and racial implications of beauty.Beauty capital materializes from the complex socio-political and economic history of the West-emerging from imperialism, settler colonialism, and slavery-that attached hierarchies of humanity, femininity, and intelligence to physiognomic and bodily characteristics. Certain features and silhouettes became racialized, thereby making beauty a way to distinguish the races and assign them economic, political, or social value. Whiteness has long functioned as the norm of beauty, meaning white people, particularly white women, are automatically designated as beautiful and given various economic, social, and cultural benefits. In this project, I contend that the overt and subtle racial transformations of white and non-Black users online rely on their beauty capital which privileges them within the influencer industry. Though much has been written on the ways that Whiteness and beauty have created aesthetic hierarchies, scholarship on influencers-while critiquing neoliberal and meritocratic logics that especially account for gender and labor-have often failed to consider the importance in light of the disparities around race. Therefore, the goal of this project is to bridge this gap.This dissertation is organized around three broad and interconnected research questions: What are the racial dimensions of beauty capital on technological platforms? How and where do white beauty capital and Black commodification meet? How does this create "ideal" influencers?

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Communication.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Web studies.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Fashion.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Black studies.

Index Term-Uncontrolled  

Beauty

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Content creation

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Cultural studies

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Media studies

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Race

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Social media

Added Entry-Corporate Name  

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Communication Studies

Host Item Entry  

Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-02A.

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