Hobson, Janell, 1973-

Body as evidence mediating race, globalizing gender / Janell Hobson. - Albany, N.Y. : SUNY Press, (c)2012. - 1 online resource (xii, 208 pages) : illustrations.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Part I. 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; Interlude: hip-hop hegemony -- Part II. Geo Trackings: Digital whiteness, primitive blacknes : 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 -- Postlude: technologies of the flesh.



9781438444024


Human body--Social aspects.
Women in popular culture.
Popular culture and globalization.
Feminism and mass media.
Ethnicity on television.


Electronic Books.

HM636 / .B639 2012