Contested Images

Acknowledgments
Credits
Introduction

Part I: Film Images
1 Ideological Racism and Cultural Resistance: Constructing Our Own Images, Yen Le Espiritu
2. Black Women’s Films: Genesis of a Tradition, Jacqueline Bobo
3. Ghosts and Vanishing Indian Women: Death of the Celluloid Maiden in the 1990s, M. Elise Marubbio
4. Lost in the Cinematic Landscape: Chicanas as Lloronas inContemporary Film, Domino Renee Pérez
5. Chasing Fae: The Watermelon Woman and Black Lesbian Possibility, Laura L. Sullivan

Part II: Beauty Images
6. Hey Girl, Am I More than My Hair?: African American Women and Their Struggles with Beauty, Body Image, and Hair, Tracey Owens Patton
7. Barbie’s Hair: Selling Out Puerto Rican Identity in the Global Market, Frances Negrón-Muntaner
8. The Pocahontas Perplex: The Image of Indian Women in American Culture, Rayna Green
9. Yearning for Lightness: Transnational Circuits in the Marketing and Consumption of Skin Lighteners, Evelyn Nakano Glenn

Part III: Music
10. Bad Sistas: Black Women Rappers and Sexual Politics in Rap Music, Tricia Rose
11. Jennifer as Selena: Rethinking Latinidad in Media and Popular Culture, Frances R. Aparicio
12. Passed into the Present: Women in Hawaiian Entertainment, Amy Ku‘uleialoha Stillman
13. Cibo Matto’s Stereotype A: Articulating Asian American Hip Pop, Jane C. H. Park

Part IV: Television
14. “Made to Be the Maid”?: An Examination of the Latina as Maid in Mainstream Film and Television, Rosa E. Soto
15. The Burden of History: Representations of American Indian Women in Popular Media, S. Elizabeth Bird
16. The Eurasian Female Hero(ine): Sydney Fox as Relic Hunter, Yasmin Jiwani
17. The Maddening Business of Show, Beretta E. Smith-Shomade

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