Hobson Body as Evidence

Mediating Race, Globalizing Gender
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4384-4402-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Analyzes how race and gender intersect in the rhetoric and imagery of popular culture in the early twenty-first century

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hobson, Janell

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Prelude: Haiku

Part I. Text Messages

1. Pop Goes Democracy: Mediating Race, Gender, and Nation on American Idol
2. Understanding “The New Black”: Destabilizing Blackness in the New Millennium
3. Body as Evidence: The Facts of Blackness, the Fictions of Whiteness

Interlude: Hip Hop Hegemony

Part II. Geo Trackings

4. Digital Whiteness, Primitive Blackness: Racializing the “Digital Divide”
5. Digital Divas Strike Back: Digital Cultures and Feminist Futures
6. Exotic Sisterhood: The Limits and Possibilities of Global Feminism

Postlude: Technologies of the Flesh

Epilogue: Widening Our Lens on the World

Notes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Janell Hobson is Associate Professor of Women's Studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York. She is the author of Venus in the Dark: Blackness and Beauty in Popular Culture.