AltaMira Press
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Trim: 6½ x 9½
978-0-7591-1961-1 • Hardback • September 2012 • $116.00 • (£75.00)
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Alma M. Garcia is a professor of sociology and director of the Latin American Studies Program at Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California.
Acknowledgments
Credits
Introduction
Part I: Film Images
1 Ideological Racism and Cultural Resistance: Constructing Our Own Images, Yen Le Espiritu
2. Black Women’s Films: Genesis of a Tradition, Jacqueline Bobo
3. Ghosts and Vanishing Indian Women: Death of the Celluloid Maiden in the 1990s, M. Elise Marubbio
4. Lost in the Cinematic Landscape: Chicanas as Lloronas inContemporary Film, Domino Renee Pérez
5. Chasing Fae: The Watermelon Woman and Black Lesbian Possibility, Laura L. Sullivan
Part II: Beauty Images
6. Hey Girl, Am I More than My Hair?: African American Women and Their Struggles with Beauty, Body Image, and Hair, Tracey Owens Patton
7. Barbie’s Hair: Selling Out Puerto Rican Identity in the Global Market, Frances Negrón-Muntaner
8. The Pocahontas Perplex: The Image of Indian Women in American Culture, Rayna Green
9. Yearning for Lightness: Transnational Circuits in the Marketing and Consumption of Skin Lighteners, Evelyn Nakano Glenn
Part III: Music
10. Bad Sistas: Black Women Rappers and Sexual Politics in Rap Music, Tricia Rose
11. Jennifer as Selena: Rethinking Latinidad in Media and Popular Culture, Frances R. Aparicio
12. Passed into the Present: Women in Hawaiian Entertainment, Amy Ku‘uleialoha Stillman
13. Cibo Matto’s Stereotype A: Articulating Asian American Hip Pop, Jane C. H. Park
Part IV: Television
14. “Made to Be the Maid”?: An Examination of the Latina as Maid in Mainstream Film and Television, Rosa E. Soto
15. The Burden of History: Representations of American Indian Women in Popular Media, S. Elizabeth Bird
16. The Eurasian Female Hero(ine): Sydney Fox as Relic Hunter, Yasmin Jiwani
17. The Maddening Business of Show, Beretta E. Smith-Shomade
About the Editor
These articles by seasoned as well as new scholars cover in multiethnic, nuanced ways the role of popular culture for women of color in the United States. From television to film, music to media representations, the essays lay bare the placement and resistances of women of color in the face of industries that function by stereotype. An excellent teaching tool and collection by a respected sociologist who bridges easily the work of social scientists with humanists.
— Deena J. González, Loyola Marymount University
This collection of classic and recent essays highlights critical debates on race, gender, and popular culture. Featuring articles on African American women, Asian American women, Native American women, and Latinas, the volume provides rich examples of film images, beauty images, music, and television as sites of conflict and contestation. Eminently readable, it will be invaluable in the classroom.”
— Shirley Jennifer Lim, The State University of New York, Stony Brook, and author of A Feeling of Belonging: Asian American Women’s Public Culture, 1930-1960
With critical visual learning at its core, Contested Images is a powerful feminist collection, an interdisciplinary gift for students and scholars alike. I cannot wait to assign this book in an undergraduate course on women of color.
— Vicki Ruiz, University of California, Irvine, and author of From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in 20th Century America
• Students develop a deeper understanding of the impact of race, class, and gender by examining popular culture
• Each of the four parts—film images, beauty images, music, and television—of Contested Images includes articles on African American women, Asian American women, Latinas, and Native American women
Included: Ideological Racism and Cultural Resistance: Constructing Our Own Images, Yen Le Espiritu; Barbie’s Hair: Selling Out Puerto Rican Identity in the Global Market, Frances Negrón-Muntaner; Yearning for Lightness: Transnational Circuits in the Marketing and Consumption of Skin Lighteners, Evelyn Nakano Glenn; Bad Sistas: Black Women Rappers and Sexual Politics in Rap Music, Tricia Rose; and Jennifer as Selena: Rethinking Latinidad in Media and Popular Culture, Frances R. Aparicio.
• Winner, Winner, PCAACA Susan Koppleman Award for the Best Anthology, Multi-Authored, or Edited Book in Feminist Studies in Popular and American Culture (Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, 2013)