dc.contributor.author	Gary, Danyelle C.
dc.coverage.spatial	United States.	en_US
dc.coverage.temporal	2015-2018	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2018-07-29T17:56:21Z
dc.date.available	2018-07-29T17:56:21Z
dc.date.issued	2018-07
dc.identifier.citation	Gary, Danyelle. "She's a Queen and a Boss: Examining the Representation of Empire's Cookie Lyon from a Black Feminist Perspective," Master's thesis. Valdosta State University, July 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10428/3160 [2018].
dc.identifier.other	DA1EDD6A-288D-2685-43E8-85FAFBEA8B3A	UUID
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10428/3160
dc.description.abstract	This research uses a black feminist perspective to examine the portrayal of Cookie Lyon on Fox’s popular primetime series, Empire. Through a textual analysis of the first three seasons, this study suggests that the Cookie Lyon character defines new representation of black womanhood that empowers and disempowers black women in contemporary society. Five key representations were discovered: the Queen Mother, the Self-sacrificing Savior, the Second-best Love Interest, the Boss, and the Street Outsider. Cookie’s depiction as a supportive mother and a powerful, creative woman empowers black women. However, the character and the character’s storyline encourages defining women according to black manhood, the abandonment of self-care, colorism, the attainment of power through manipulation, and respectability politics. Thus, the depiction of Cookie Lyon also disempowers black woman. Such television depictions contribute to the establishment and understanding of self-perception among black women and offers a lens through which others perceive black women in American pop culture. Keywords: black feminism, stereotypes, Empire, Cookie Lyon, black women	en_US
dc.description.tableofcontents	I. INTRODUCTION 1 \| II. LITERATURE REVIEW 5 \| Theoretical Framework: Black Feminist Theory 5 \| Historical Stereotypes of Black Women 9 \| Empire: The Television Series 14 \| III. RESEARCH QUESTION 17 \| Method and Procedures 17 \| IV. REDEFINING REPRESENTATION 19 \| The Queen Mother 19 \| Self-sacrificing Savior 26 \| Second-best Love Interest 30 \| Boss 33 \| Street Outsider 36 \| V. DISCUSSION 39 \| REFERENCES 42 \| APPENDIX A: Main Character Descriptions 51 \| APPENDIX B: Episode List 55	en_US
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dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
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dc.subject	Academic theses	en_US
dc.subject	Communication Arts	en_US
dc.subject	Feminism	en_US
dc.subject	Feminism on television	en_US
dc.subject	Empire (Television program)	en_US
dc.subject	African American women	en_US
dc.subject	Stereotypes (Social psychology) in mass media	en_US
dc.title	She's a Queen and a Boss: Examining the Representation of Empire's Cookie Lyon from a Black Feminist Perspective	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US
dc.contributor.department	Department of Communication Arts of the College of the Arts	en_US
dc.description.advisor	Cox, Nicole M.
dc.description.committee	Eaves, Michael H.
dc.description.committee	Jurczak, Linda
dc.description.committee	Robson, Deborah C.
dc.description.committee	K. da Cruz, Becky
dc.description.degree	M.A.	en_US
dc.description.major	Communication Arts	en_US