ISBN:
9781403982612
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xv, 245 Seiten)
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Illustrationen
Edition:
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Beyond the Frame : Women of Color and Visual Representation
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Beyond the frame
DDC:
305.48800973
Keywords:
Minority women Congresses Social conditions
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Photography of women Congresses
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Marginality, Social Congresses
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Marginality, Social ; United States ; Congresses
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Minority women ; United States ; Social conditions ; Congresses
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Photography of women ; United States ; Congresses
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Abstract:
Very rich in new and perceptive information...there is an urgent need for this book in the various fields it touches.
Abstract:
"Beyond the Frame" explores the importance of visual images in the identities and material conditions of women of color as they relate to social power, oppression, and resistance. The goal of the collection is to rethink the category of visual theory through women of color. It also explores the political and social ramifications of visual imagery for women of color, and the political consciousness that can emerge alongside a critical understanding of the impact of visual imagery. The book begins with a general exploration of what it means to develop a women of color criticism (rather
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; About the Contributors and Editors; Introduction; Part I Popular Culture and Advertising; 1 "The East Side Revue, 40 Hits by East Los Angeles Most Popular Groups!" The Boys in the Band and the Girls Who Were Their Fans; 2 The Commoditization of Hybridity in the 1990s U.S. Fashion Advertising: Who Is cK one?; 3 Albita's Queer Nations and U.S. Salsa Culture; 4 Beyond Pocahontas; 5 "Come Up to the Kool Taste": Race and the Semiotics of Smoking; Part II Self/Identity, Memory/History; 6 Conjuring up Traces of Historical Violence: Grandpa, Who is Not in the Photo
Description / Table of Contents:
7 "The Face Value of Dreams": Gender, Race, Class, and the Politics of Cosmetic Surgery8 A Fraction of National Belonging: "Hybrid Hawaiians," Blood Quantum, and the Ongoing Search for Purity; Part III Resistance Images; 9 Bearing Bandoleras: Transfigurative Liberation and the Iconography of la Nueva Chicana; 10 Aztec Princess Still at Large; 11 Embodied at the Shrine of Cultural Disjuncture; 12 "¿Soy Punkera, Y Que?": Sexuality, Translocality, and Punk in Los Angeles and Beyond; Index; A; B; C; D; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; P; R; S; T; W; X
Note:
Papers originally presented at a conference sponsored by the Humanities Research Institute, University of California, Santa Cruz, entitled "Women of Color and Visual Representations" held in spring of 1999
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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