Contested Images (eBook, ePUB)

Women of Color in Popular Culture
Redaktion: Garcia, Alma M.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Contested Images: Women of Color in Popular Culture is a collection of 17 essays that analyze representations in popular culture of African American, Asian American, Latina, and Native American women. The anthology is divided into four parts: film images, beauty images, music, and television. The articles share two intellectual traditions: the authors, predominantly women of color, use an intersectionality perspective in their analysis of popular culture and the representation of women of color, and they identify popular culture as a site of conflict and contestation. Instructors will find this collection to be a convenient textbook for women's studies; media studies; race, class, and gender courses; ethnic studies; and more.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 390
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780759119635
• Artikelnr.: 37828555

Autorenporträt

Alma M. Garcia is a professor of sociology and director of the Latin American Studies Program at Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Credits
Introduction
Part I: Film Images
1 Ideological Racism and Cultural Resistance: Constructing Our Own Images,
Yen Le Espiritu
2. Black Women's Films: Genesis of a Tradition, Jacqueline Bobo
3. Ghosts and Vanishing Indian Women: Death of the Celluloid Maiden in the
1990s, M. Elise Marubbio
4. Lost in the Cinematic Landscape: Chicanas as Lloronas inContemporary
Film, Domino Renee Pérez
5. Chasing Fae: The Watermelon Woman and Black Lesbian Possibility, Laura
L. Sullivan
Part II: Beauty Images
6. Hey Girl, Am I More than My Hair?: African American Women and Their
Struggles with Beauty, Body Image, and Hair, Tracey Owens Patton
7. Barbie's Hair: Selling Out Puerto Rican Identity in the Global Market,
Frances Negrón-Muntaner
8. The Pocahontas Perplex: The Image of Indian Women in American Culture,
Rayna Green
9. Yearning for Lightness: Transnational Circuits in the Marketing and
Consumption of Skin Lighteners, Evelyn Nakano Glenn
Part III: Music
10. Bad Sistas: Black Women Rappers and Sexual Politics in Rap Music,
Tricia Rose
11. Jennifer as Selena: Rethinking Latinidad in Media and Popular Culture,
Frances R. Aparicio
12. Passed into the Present: Women in Hawaiian Entertainment, Amy
Ku'uleialoha Stillman
13. Cibo Matto's Stereotype A: Articulating Asian American Hip Pop, Jane C.
H. Park
Part IV: Television
14. "Made to Be the Maid"?: An Examination of the Latina as Maid in
Mainstream Film and Television, Rosa E. Soto
15. The Burden of History: Representations of American Indian Women in
Popular Media, S. Elizabeth Bird
16. The Eurasian Female Hero(ine): Sydney Fox as Relic Hunter, Yasmin
Jiwani
17. The Maddening Business of Show, Beretta E. Smith-Shomade
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