Body as evidence
Subtitle: mediating race, globalizing gender
By: Janell Hobson
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Albany, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781438444000; 9781438444017
Subjects: Popular culture and globalization; Women in popular culture; Social aspects; Feminism and mass media; Human body; Ethnicity on television
Description: Overview: Analyzes how race and gender intersect in the rhetoric and imagery of popular culture in the early twenty-first century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: Prelude: haiku; title: Text messages; title: Pop goes democracy : mediating race, gender, and nation on American idol; title: Understanding "the new black" : destabilizing blackness for the new millennium; title: Body as evidence : the facts of blackness, the fictions of whiteness; title: Geo trackings; title: Digital whiteness, primitive blackness : racializing the "digital divide"; title: Digital divas strike back : digital cultures and feminist futures; title: Exotic sisterhood : the limits and possibilities of global feminism; title: Epilogue widening our lens on the world; title: References; title: Index.