Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Buy black: how black women transformed US pop culture

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: University of Illinois Press 2022 UrbanaDescription: xll, 189 p.: col. ill. Includes bibliography and indexISBN:
  • 9780252086359
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 658.83430973 H2B8
Summary: Buy Black examines the role American Black women play in Black consumption in the US and worldwide, with a focus on their pivotal role in packaging Black feminine identity since the 1960s. Through an exploration of the dolls, princesses, and rags-to-riches stories that represent Black girlhood and womanhood in everything from haircare to Nicki Minaj’s hip-hop, Aria S. Halliday spotlights how the products created by Black women have furthered Black women’s position as the moral compass and arbiter of Black racial progress. Far-ranging and bold, Buy Black reveals what attitudes inform a contemporary Black sensibility based in representation and consumerism. It also traces the parameters of Black symbolic power, mapping the sites where intraracial ideals of blackness, womanhood, beauty, play, and sexuality meet and mix in consumer and popular culture. https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=83zmd7ed9780252044274
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
Holdings
Item type Current library Item location Collection Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Vikram Sarabhai Library Rack 40-A / Slot 2281 (2nd Floor, East Wing) Non-fiction General Stacks 658.83430973 H2B8 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 204990

Table of contents
Introduction: the making of Black womanhood --
Theorizing Black women's cultural influence through consumption --
From riots to style: the history of Black Barbie --
From bootstraps to glass slippers: Black women's uplift in Disney's princess canon --
A Black Barbie's moment: Nicki Minaj and the struggle for cultural dominance --
Coda: the stakes of twenty-first-century Black creativity.

Buy Black examines the role American Black women play in Black consumption in the US and worldwide, with a focus on their pivotal role in packaging Black feminine identity since the 1960s. Through an exploration of the dolls, princesses, and rags-to-riches stories that represent Black girlhood and womanhood in everything from haircare to Nicki Minaj’s hip-hop, Aria S. Halliday spotlights how the products created by Black women have furthered Black women’s position as the moral compass and arbiter of Black racial progress.
Far-ranging and bold, Buy Black reveals what attitudes inform a contemporary Black sensibility based in representation and consumerism. It also traces the parameters of Black symbolic power, mapping the sites where intraracial ideals of blackness, womanhood, beauty, play, and sexuality meet and mix in consumer and popular culture.

https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=83zmd7ed9780252044274

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.