Body as evidence : mediating race, globalizing gender / Janell Hobson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hobson, Janell, 1973-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human body--Social aspects.

Human body.

Women in popular culture.

Popular culture and globalization.

Feminism and mass media.

Ethnicity on television.

Physical Description:

xii, 208 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Albany, N.Y. : SUNY Press, [2012]

Summary:

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 Monae, 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Prelude: haiku

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

Geo trackings

Digital whiteness, primitive blackness : 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

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438444000

1438444001

9781438444017

143844401X

OCLC:

767864899