Contested images : women of color in popular culture / edited by Alma M. Garcia.
Contested Images offers a collection of 17 essays that analyze the representations in popular culture of African American, Asian American, Latina, and Native American women. No other anthology offers this wide spectrum of ethnicities.
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Lanham :
AltaMira Press,
©2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Credits
- Introduction
- Part I : Film images. 1. Ideological racism and cultural resistance
- 2. Black women's films
- 3. Ghosts and vanishing Indian women
- 4. Lost in the cinematic landscape
- 5. Chasing Fae
- Part II : Beauty images. 6. Hey girl, am I more than my hair?
- 7. Barbie's hair
- 8. The Pocahontas perplex
- 9. Yearning for lightness
- Part III : Music. 10. Bad sistas
- 11. Jennifer as Selena
- 12. Passed into the present
- 13. Cibo Matto's stereotype A
- Part IV : Television. 14. "Made to be the maid"?
- 15. The burden of history
- 16. The Eurasian female hero(ine)
- 17. The maddening business of show.