Contested images : women of color in popular culture
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Contested images : women of color in popular culture
AltaMira Press, c2012
- : cloth
- : pbk
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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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
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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 Perez
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 Negron-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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