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Saraswati, L. Ayu,

Seeing beauty, sensing race in transnational Indonesia [electronic resource] / L. Ayu Saraswati. - Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, c2013. - 1 online resource (xi, 173 pages ) - Southeast Asia--politics, meaning, and memory .

Includes bibliographical references (pages [143]-162) and index.

Introduction: seeing beauty, sensing race in transnational Indonesia -- Rasa, race, and Ramayana: sensing and censoring the history of color in precolonial Java -- Rooting and routing whiteness in colonial Indonesia: From Dutch to Japanese whiteness -- Indonesian white beauty: spatializing race and racializing spatial tropes -- Cosmopolitan whiteness: the effects and affects of skin-whitening advertisements in a transnational women's magazine -- Malu: coloring shame and shaming the color of beauty -- Conclusion: shades of emotions in a transnational context.

ISBN: 9780824837877

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Race awareness--Indonesia.
Human skin color--Psychological aspects.--Indonesia
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)--Indonesia.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HQ1220.I5 / S27 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 305.4209598