She's Mad Real : Popular Culture and West Indian Girls in Brooklyn / Oneka LaBennett.
LaBennett, Oneka, author.
2011
HQ1439.N6 L33 2016
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Title She's Mad Real : Popular Culture and West Indian Girls in Brooklyn / Oneka LaBennett.
Author LaBennett, Oneka, author.
ISBN 9780814765289
DOI https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814752470.001.0001
Published New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2011]
Copyright ©2011
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.18574/nyu/9780814752470.001.0001 doi
Call Number HQ1439.N6 L33 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.235208996972907
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.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Consuming Identities
2. "Our Museum"
3. Dual Citizenship in the Hip-Hop Nation
4. "I Think They're Looking for a Skinny Chick!"
5. Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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