Contested images : women of color in popular culture

Summary: "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, all 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."--Publisher's website.

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ISBN: 9780759119611
ISBN: 0759119619
ISBN: 9780759119628
ISBN: 0759119627
ISBN: 9780759119635
ISBN: 0759119635
Physical Description: print
xxviii, 329 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher: Lanham : AltaMira Press, ©2012.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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pt. 1. Film images. Ideological racism and cultural resistance : constructing our own images / Yen Le Espiritu ; Black women's films : genesis of a tradition / Jacqueline Bobo ; Ghosts and vanishing Indian women : death of the celluloid maiden in the 1990s / M. Elise Marubbio ; Lost in the cinematic landscape : Chicanas as Lloronas in contemporary film / Domino Renee Pérez ; Chasing Fae : The watermelon woman and black lesbian possibility / Laura L. Sullivan -- pt. 2. Beauty images. Hey girl, am I more than my hair? African American women and their struggles with beauty, body image, and hair / Tracey Owens Patton ; Barbie's hair : selling out Puerto Rican identity in the global market / Frances Negrón-Muntaner ; The Pocahontas perplex : the image of Indian women in American culture / Rayna Green ; Yearning for lightness : transnational circuits in the marketing and consumption of skin lighteners / Evelyn Nakano Glenn -- pt. 3. Music. Bad sistas : black women rappers and sexual politics in rap music / Tricia Rose ; Jennifer as Selena : rethinking Latinidad in media and popular culture / Frances R. Aparicio ; Passed into the present : women in Hawaiian entertainment / Amy Ku'uleialoha Stillman ; Cibo Matto's Stereotype A : articulating Asian American hip pop / Jane C.H. Park -- pt. 4. Television. "Made to be the maid"? An examination of the Latina as maid in mainstream film and television / Rosa E. Soto ; The burden of history : representations of American Indian women in popular media / S. Elizabeth Bird ; The Eurasian female hero(ine) : Sydney Fox as relic hunter / Yasmin Jiwani ; The maddening business of show / Beretta E. Smith-Shomade.