03386nam 2200661Ia 450 991082193230332120200520144314.00-8147-6528-910.18574/9780814765289(CKB)2550000000040749(EBL)865786(OCoLC)746794751(SSID)ssj0000525663(PQKBManifestationID)11316747(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000525663(PQKBWorkID)10508533(PQKB)10504647(StDuBDS)EDZ0001323474(MiAaPQ)EBC865786(OCoLC)864844104(MdBmJHUP)muse4781(DE-B1597)548503(DE-B1597)9780814765289(EXLCZ)99255000000004074920110218d2011 uy 0engurnn#---|un|utxtccrShe's mad real popular culture and West Indian girls in Brooklyn /Oneka LaBennett1st ed.New York NYU Press20111 online resource (249 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8147-5248-9 0-8147-5247-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --1. Consuming Identities --2. “Our Museum” --3. Dual Citizenship in the Hip-Hop Nation --4. “I Think They’re Looking for a Skinny Chick!” --5. Conclusion --Notes --Bibliography --Index --About the AuthorOverwhelmingly, Black teenage girls are negatively represented in national and global popular discourses, either as being “at risk” for teenage pregnancy, obesity, or sexually transmitted diseases, or as helpless victims of inner city poverty and violence. Such popular representations are pervasive and often portray Black adolescents’ consumer and leisure culture as corruptive, uncivilized, and pathological. In She’s Mad Real, Oneka LaBennett draws on over a decade of researching teenage West Indian girls in the Flatbush and Crown Heights sections of Brooklyn to argue that Black youth are in fact strategic consumers of popular culture and through this consumption they assert far more agency in defining race, ethnicity, and gender than academic and popular discourses tend to acknowledge. Importantly, LaBennett also studies West Indian girls’ consumer and leisure culture within public spaces in order to analyze how teens like China are marginalized and policed as they attempt to carve out places for themselves within New York’s contested terrains.African American girlsNew York (State)New YorkMinority youthNew York (State)New YorkWest IndiansNew York (State)New YorkSocial life and customsConsumer behaviorNew York (State)New YorkBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)African American girlsMinority youthWest IndiansSocial life and customs.Consumer behavior305.235/20899697290747275LaBennett Oneka1638450MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821932303321She’s Mad Real4071979UNINA