She's mad real: popular culture and West Indian girls in Brooklyn
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Main Author: LaBennett, Oneka ca. 20./21. Jh (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York [u.a.] New York Uuniv. Press 2011
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Item Description:"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.
Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:VIII, 240 S.
ISBN:9780814752470
9780814752487
9780814753125

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