Kamille Gentles-Peart

Kamille Gentles-Peart

Kamille is a US-based Jamaican scholar who focuses on Black Caribbean women and racialized body politics. Specifically, she is concerned with the ways in which Black women’s bodies are used to justify their oppression, and how they make meaning and life in the context of race-gender hegemonies. 

She is the author of Romance with Voluptuousness: Caribbean Women and Thick Bodies in the United States (University of Nebraska Press, 2016), which looks at the lived realities and strategic negotiations of Black Caribbean women that pursue voluptuous body ideals in the U.S. She is also the co-editor of the award-winning anthology, Re-Constructing Place and Space: Media, Power, and Identity in the Constitution of Caribbean Diasporas (2012), and the co-editor of the first book to critically interrogate Jamaica’s national “brand,” Brand Jamaica: Reimagining Jamaica’s National Image and Identity (University of Nebraska Press, 2019). Her work has also appeared in journals such as Women’s Studies Quarterly, the International Journal of Cultural Studies, and Feminism and Psychology. 

She is is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Roger Williams University, Rhode Island, USA.

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