In 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.
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Analyzes how race and gender intersect in the rhetoric and imagery of popular culture in the early twenty-first century
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Prelude: Haiku Part I. Text Messages 1. Pop Goes Democracy: Mediating Race, Gender, and Nation on American Idol 2. Understanding “The New Black”: Destabilizing Blackness in the New Millennium 3. Body as Evidence: The Facts of Blackness, the Fictions of Whiteness Interlude: Hip Hop Hegemony Part II. Geo Trackings 4. Digital Whiteness, Primitive Blackness: Racializing the “Digital Divide” 5. Digital Divas Strike Back: Digital Cultures and Feminist Futures 6. Exotic Sisterhood: The Limits and Possibilities of Global Feminism Postlude: Technologies of the Flesh Epilogue: Widening Our Lens on the World Notes References Index
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"Hobson's book is a tour de force that convincingly and bravely asserts the need for continued attention to the intersection of race and gender; it is a wake-up call for the millennial generation that the fight for justice and equality is far from over." — Signs"…Hobson is keenly attuned to the distance between what's been attained and what's yet to be, and the dissonance between what's reported and how life is truly lived." — Ms. Magazine"By racializing the analysis of technology, Janell Hobson brings to the forefront some very important issues regarding the digital divide. There is a tendency in some areas of academia to wholeheartedly celebrate new technologies without giving enough thought to how class, gender, race, and geographical divisions affect both the production and consumption ends of the chain." — Gail Dines, coeditor of Gender, Race, and Class in Media: A Critical Reader, Third Edition
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ISBN
9781438444017
Publisert
2012-10-18
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Vendor
State University of New York Press
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426 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
220
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