Contested Images Women of Color in Popular Culture

Name: Contested Images Women of Color in Popular Culture
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ISBN: 9780759119628

ISBN-10: 0759119627

ISBN-13: 9780759119628

Edition: 2012

Authors: Alma M. Garcia

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Book details

List price: $63.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Publication date: 9/14/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 358
Size: 5.89" wide x 9.07" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Credits


Introduction



Film Images



Ideological Racism and Cultural Resistance: Constructing Our Own Images




Black Women's Films: Genesis of a Tradition




Ghosts and Vanishing Indian Women: Death of the Celluloid Maiden in the 1990s




Lost in the Cinematic Landscape: Chicanas as Lloronas in Contemporary Film




Chasing Fae: The Watermelon Woman and Black Lesbian Possibility




Beauty Images



Hey Girl, Am I More than My Hair?: African American Women and Their Struggles with Beauty, Body Image, and Hair




Barbie's Hair: Selling Out Puerto Rican Identity in the Global-Market




The Pocahontas Perplex: The Image of Indian Women in American Culture




Yearning for Lightness: Transnational Circuits in the Marketing and Consumption of Skin Lighteners




Music



Bad Sistas: Black Women Rappers and Sexual Politics in Rap Music




Jennifer as Selena: Rethinking Latinidad in Media and Popular Culture




Passed into the Present: Women in Hawaiian Entertainment




Cibo Matto' s Stereotype A: Articulating Asian American Hip Pop




Television



"Made to Be the Maid"?: An Examination of the Latina as Maid in Mainstream Film and Television




The Burden of History: Representations of American Indian Women in Popular Media




The Eurasian Female Hero(ine): Sydney Fox as Relic Hunter




The Maddening Business of Show



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