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Aesthetics of Excess : The Art and Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment /
"Aesthetics of Excess examines how the bodies of women and girls of color are racialized through cultural discourses of aesthetic value that mark them as sexual "others," and how in turn, aesthetic value is generated through the presentation of their bodies. Hernandez employs particip...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2020.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | "Aesthetics of Excess examines how the bodies of women and girls of color are racialized through cultural discourses of aesthetic value that mark them as sexual "others," and how in turn, aesthetic value is generated through the presentation of their bodies. Hernandez employs participatory research with young women of color, critical readings of art and popular culture, and autoethnography to provide new frameworks for understanding the relationships between cultural production and racialized bodies that can be variously exploitative and socially transformative. The book is grounded in Hernandez's community arts work with Black and Latina girls through Women on the Rise!, an outreach project she established at the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami, Florida"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (317 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781478012634 |