Body as evidence : mediating race, globalizing gender /
Hobson, Janell,1973-
Albany, NY : State University of New York Press,
2012.
Overview:  Analyzes how race and gender intersect in the rhetoric and imagery of popular culture in the early twenty-first century.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Prelude: haiku -- Text Messages: -- Pop goes democracy:  mediating race, gender, and nation on American idol -- Understanding "the new black" : destabilizing blackness for the new millennium -- Body as evidence:  the facts of blackness, the fictions of whiteness -- Interlude:  Hip-Hop hegemony -- Geo Trackings: -- Digital whiteness, primitive blackness:  racializing the "digital divide" -- Digital divas strike back:  digital cultures and feminist futures -- Exotic sisterhood:  the limits and possibilities of global feminism -- Epilogue:  Widening our lens on the world -- Postlude:  Technologies of the flesh -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Overview:  Analyzes how race and gender intersect in the rhetoric and imagery of popular culture in the early twenty-first century.
Human body
Women in popular culture.
Popular culture and globalization.
Feminism and mass media.
Ethnicity on television.