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For Colored Girls Who Loved Prince Rogers Nelson: Issues of Colorism and Identity

verfasst von: Donnetrice Allison

Erschienen in: Journal of African American Studies | Ausgabe 3/2017

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This article carefully examines the women with whom the artist, Prince Rogers Nelson, was most closely associated and the potential messages about colorism those relationships suggest. The author examines the issue from a personal perspective, as one who grew up idolizing Prince and as someone whose appearance did not reflect that of the women Prince flaunted. One overarching question asks: Was Prince a victim of colorism, as well as a perpetrator of it?

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Titel: For Colored Girls Who Loved Prince Rogers Nelson: Issues of Colorism and Identity
verfasst von: Donnetrice Allison
Publikationsdatum: 26.09.2017
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: Journal of African American Studies / Ausgabe 3/2017
Print ISSN: 1559-1646
Elektronische ISSN: 1936-4741
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12111-017-9361-9

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