A Sister Dope Enough to Run a Magazine: Khadijah James as the Black Womanist Journalist in Popular Culture
Meredith Clark
Abstract
This case study seeks to add to the limited literature on the depiction of Black journalists in popular culture by focusing on Khadijah James, founder and editor-in-chief of Flavor magazine, as played by multi-hyphenate entertainer Dana “Queen Latifah” Owens on the FOX Network show “Living Single” from 1993 to 1998. Through an (inter)textual analysis that applies Venus Evans-Winter’s Black feminist methodology of “daughtering,” I discuss Queen-Latifah-as-Khadijah’s construction as a Black womanist journalist in popular culture. This study focuses on how Khadijah’s existence paradoxically extended oppressive controlling images of Black-collar entrepreneurship while contesting norms of race, gender, and sexuality that often oversimplify the realities of iconic Black women journalists.
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