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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786491403321

Autore

Hobson Janell <1973->

Titolo

Body as evidence [[electronic resource] ] : mediating race, globalizing gender / / Janell Hobson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, N.Y., : SUNY Press, c2012

ISBN

1-4384-4402-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 p.)

Disciplina

306.4/7

Soggetti

Human body - Social aspects

Women in popular culture

Popular culture and globalization

Feminism and mass media

Ethnicity on television

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 -- 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 -- References -- Index.