She's mad real : popular culture and West Indian girls in Brooklyn / Oneka LaBennett.

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LaBennett, Oneka [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : New York University Press, [2011]Description: 1 online resource (viii, 240 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780814753125
0814753124
9780814765289
0814765289

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: She's mad real.DDC classification:

305.235/20899697290747275 22

LOC classification:

HQ1439.N6 L33 2011eb

Other classification:

SOC002010

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Contents:

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.

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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-225) and index.

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"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.

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