She's mad real
LaBennett, Oneka.
She's mad real popular culture and West Indian girls in Brooklyn / [electronic resource] : Oneka LaBennett. - New York : New York University Press, c2011. - 1 online resource (viii, 240 p. :) ill. ; - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-225) and index.
"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"--
9780814765289 0814765289 9780814753125
Consumer behavior--New York (State)--Brooklyn.
West Indians--Social life and customs.--New York (State)--Brooklyn
Minority youth--New York (State)--Brooklyn.
African American girls--New York (State)--Brooklyn.
Electronic books.
HQ1439.N6 / L33 2011
305.235/20899697290747275
She's mad real popular culture and West Indian girls in Brooklyn / [electronic resource] : Oneka LaBennett. - New York : New York University Press, c2011. - 1 online resource (viii, 240 p. :) ill. ; - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-225) and index.
"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"--
9780814765289 0814765289 9780814753125
Consumer behavior--New York (State)--Brooklyn.
West Indians--Social life and customs.--New York (State)--Brooklyn
Minority youth--New York (State)--Brooklyn.
African American girls--New York (State)--Brooklyn.
Electronic books.
HQ1439.N6 / L33 2011
305.235/20899697290747275