She's mad real : popular culture and West Indian girls in Brooklyn / / Oneka LaBennett

• Autore: LaBennett Oneka
• Pubblicazione: New York, : NYU Press, 2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (249 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.235/20899697290747275
• Soggetto topico: African American girls - New York (State) - New York; Minority youth - New York (State) - New York; West Indians - New York (State) - New York - Social life and customs; Consumer behavior - New York (State) - New York
• Soggetto geografico: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Author
• Sommario/riassunto: Overwhelmingly, 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: She’s Mad Real
• ISBN: 0-8147-6528-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910821932303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II