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She's mad real : popular culture and West Indian girls in Brooklyn Cover Image

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

Summary: "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"--Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 0814752489
ISBN: 9780814752487
ISBN: 0814752470
ISBN: 9780814752470
ISBN: 0814765289
ISBN: 9780814765289
ISBN: 0814753124
ISBN: 9780814753125
Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 240 pages) : illustrations.
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Publisher: New York : New York University Press, [2011]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-225) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Consuming Identities: Toward a Youth Culture-Centered Approach to West Indian Transnationalism -- "Our Museum": Mapping Race, Gender, and West Indian Transnationalism -- Dual Citizenship in the Hip-Hop Nation: Gender and Authenticity in Black Youth Culture -- "I Think They're Looking for a Skinny Chick!": Girls and Boys Consuming Racialized Beauty -- Conclusion: Placing Gendered and Generational Notions of West Indian Success.
Language Note:	English.
Source of Description Note:	Online resource; title from e-book title screen (JSTOR platform, viewed September 21, 2016).