She's Mad Real: Popular Culture and West Indian Girls in Brooklyn - Softcover

LaBennett, Oneka

 
9780814752487: She's Mad Real: Popular Culture and West Indian Girls in Brooklyn
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0814752489 ISBN 13: 9780814752487
Verlag: New York University, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Oneka LaBennett is Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Southern California. She’s the author of She’s Mad Real: Popular Culture and West Indian Girls in Brooklyn and co-editor of Racial Formation in the Twenty-First Century.

Oneka LaBennett is Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Southern California. She’s the author of She’s Mad Real: Popular Culture and West Indian Girls in Brooklyn and co-editor of Racial Formation in the Twenty-First Century.

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Verlag
New York University
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0814752489
ISBN 13 
9780814752487
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
253
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
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Doelen 72
Breda
4831 GR
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