Body as Evidence: Mediating Race, Globalizing Gender

Contents

Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Prelude: Haiku 1 Introduction 3 Part I Text Messages Chapter 1 Pop Goes Democracy: Mediating Race, Gender, and Nation on American Idol 21 Chapter 2 Understanding “The New Black”: Destabilizing Blackness in the New Millennium 43 Chapter 3 Body as Evidence: The Facts of Blackness, the Fictions of Whiteness 65 Interlude: Hip‑Hop Hegemony 87 Part II Geo Trackings Chapter 4 Digital Whiteness, Primitive Blackness: Racializing the “Digital Divide” 93 viii Contents Chapter 5 Digital Divas Strike Back: Digital Cultures and Feminist Futures 115 Chapter 6 Exotic Sisterhood: The Limits and Possibilities of Global Feminism 139 Epilogue Widening Our Lens on the World 163 Postlude: Technologies of the Flesh 177 Notes 179 References 185 Index 197 ...