Contested Images

Alma M. Garcia is a professor of sociology and director of the Latin American Studies Program at Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California.

• AcknowledgmentsCreditsIntroductionPart I: Film Images 1 Ideological Racism and Cultural Resistance: Constructing Our Own Images, Yen Le Espiritu2. Black Women’s Films: Genesis of a Tradition, Jacqueline Bobo3. Ghosts and Vanishing Indian Women: Death of the Celluloid Maiden in the 1990s, M. Elise Marubbio4. Lost in the Cinematic Landscape: Chicanas as Lloronas inContemporary Film, Domino Renee Pérez5. Chasing Fae: The Watermelon Woman and Black Lesbian Possibility, Laura L. SullivanPart II: Beauty Images6. Hey Girl, Am I More than My Hair?: African American Women and Their Struggles with Beauty, Body Image, and Hair, Tracey Owens Patton7. Barbie’s Hair: Selling Out Puerto Rican Identity in the Global Market, Frances Negrón-Muntaner8. The Pocahontas Perplex: The Image of Indian Women in American Culture, Rayna Green9. Yearning for Lightness: Transnational Circuits in the Marketing and Consumption of Skin Lighteners, Evelyn Nakano GlennPart III: Music 10. Bad Sistas: Black Women Rappers and Sexual Politics in Rap Music, Tricia Rose11. Jennifer as Selena: Rethinking Latinidad in Media and Popular Culture, Frances R. Aparicio12. Passed into the Present: Women in Hawaiian Entertainment, Amy Ku‘uleialoha Stillman13. Cibo Matto’s Stereotype A: Articulating Asian American Hip Pop, Jane C. H. ParkPart IV: Television 14. “Made to Be the Maid”?: An Examination of the Latina as Maid in Mainstream Film and Television, Rosa E. Soto15. The Burden of History: Representations of American Indian Women in Popular Media, S. Elizabeth Bird16. The Eurasian Female Hero(ine): Sydney Fox as Relic Hunter, Yasmin Jiwani17. The Maddening Business of Show, Beretta E. Smith-ShomadeAbout the Editor

These articles by seasoned as well as new scholars cover in multiethnic, nuanced ways the role of popular culture for women of color in the United States. From television to film, music to media representations, the essays lay bare the placement and resistances of women of color in the face of industries that function by stereotype. An excellent teaching tool and collection by a respected sociologist who bridges easily the work of social scientists with humanists.