LEADER 03974nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910807145403321 005 20240417042350.0 010 $a1-4384-4402-8 035 $a(CKB)2670000000278386 035 $a(OCoLC)817565779 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10622337 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000755185 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11496241 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000755185 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10729973 035 $a(PQKB)11593143 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3408639 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse18635 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3408639 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10622337 035 $a(OCoLC)923417255 035 $a(DE-B1597)684220 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781438444024 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000278386 100 $a20111202d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBody as evidence$b[electronic resource] $emediating race, globalizing gender /$fJanell Hobson 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAlbany, N.Y. $cSUNY Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (222 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-4384-4401-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aAcknowledgments -- 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. 330 $aIn Body as Evidence, Janell Hobson challenges postmodernist dismissals of identity politics and the delusional belief that the Millennial era reflects a "postracial" and "postfeminist" world. Hobson points to diverse examples in cultural narratives, which suggest that new media rely on old ideologies in the shaping of the body politic.Body as Evidence creates a theoretical mash-up of prose and poetry to illuminate the ways that bodies still matter as sites of political, cultural, and digital resistance. It does so by examining various representations, from popular shows like American Idol to public figures like the Obamas to high-profile cases like the Duke lacrosse rape scandal to current trends in digital culture. Hobson's study also discusses the women who have fueled and retooled twenty-first-century media to make sense of antiracist and feminist resistance. Her discussions include the electronica of Janelle Monáe, M.I.A., and Björk; the feminist film odysseys of Wanuri Kahiu and Neloufer Pazira; and the embodied resistance found simply in raising one's voice in song, creating a blog, wearing a veil, stripping naked, or planting a tree. Spinning knowledge out of this information overload, Hobson offers a global black feminist meditation on how our bodies mobilize, destabilize, and decolonize the meanings of race and gender in an increasingly digitized and globalized world. 606 $aHuman body$xSocial aspects 606 $aWomen in popular culture 606 $aPopular culture and globalization 606 $aFeminism and mass media 606 $aEthnicity on television 615 0$aHuman body$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aWomen in popular culture. 615 0$aPopular culture and globalization. 615 0$aFeminism and mass media. 615 0$aEthnicity on television. 676 $a306.4/7 700 $aHobson$b Janell$f1973-$01619614 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807145403321 996 $aBody as evidence$93951971 997 $aUNINA