Body as Evidence: Mediating Race, Globalizing Gender

Body as Evidence: Mediating Race, Globalizing Gender

Analyzes how race and gender intersect in the rhetoric and imagery of popular culture in the early twenty-first century.

In Body as Evidence, Janell Hobson challenges postmodernist dismissals of identity politics and the delusional belief that the Millennial era reflects a â€œpostracialâ€ and â€œpostfeministâ€ 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. Hobsonâ€™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 MonÃ¡e, M.I.A., and BjÃ¶rk; the feminist film odysseys of Wanuri Kahiu and Neloufer Pazira; and the embodied resistance found simply in raising oneâ€™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.

â€œBy racializing the analysis of technology, Janell Hobson brings to the forefront some very important issues regarding the digital divide. There is a tendency in some areas of academia to wholeheartedly celebrate new technologies without giving enough thought to how class, gender, race, and geographical divisions affect both the production and consumption ends of the chain.â€ â€” Gail Dines, coeditor of Gender, Race, and Class in Media: A Critical Reader, Third Edition

Country	USA
Author	Janell Hobson
Binding	Paperback
Brand	Brand: SUNY Press
EAN	9781438444000
Feature	Used Book in Good Condition
ISBN	1438444001
Label	SUNY Press
Manufacturer	SUNY Press
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	208
PublicationDate	2012-10-18
Publisher	SUNY Press
Studio	SUNY Press
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Body as Evidence: Mediating Race, Globalizing Gender

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