From Mammy to Miss America and Beyond: Cultural Images and the Shaping of US Social Policy

ISBN-13: 9780415087773 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 256 str.

K. Sue Jewell; Sue Jewell K.

Opis

This book focuses on methods by which individuals in the USA who control societal institutions, particularly the mass media, operate to retain their power advantage while maintaining African-American women in a socially and economically depressed status. The author argues that the mass media play an important role in maintaining a social hierarchy of discrimination because it is the primary vehicle by which ideology is transmitted through news and entertainment.

Recenzje

`From Mammy to Miss America and beyond is a long overdue cultural history of African-American female subjectivity as is has been produced through the white, Anglocentric and patriachal industries of entertainment, advertising and the government. Jewell mounts a forceful project that is not only able to loosen the grip of white culture on the image of the African-American woman but demystify its ideological hegemony in order to transform existing policies and social practices towards a more just and equitable order.' - Peter McLaren, Renowned Scolar in Residence, Miami University of Ohio

Spis treści

Chapter 1 The Status of African American Women; Chapter 2 The Social Significance of Cultural Imagery; Chapter 3 Cultural Images as Symbols of African American Womanhood; Chapter 4 Imagery of African American Womanhood; Chapter 5 Cultural Imagery of African American Women and Empiricism; Chapter 6 Gender-Oriented Social Policy; Chapter 7 The US Legal System; Chapter 8 Determining Entitlements; Chapter 9 A Microcultural Response; Chapter 10 Redefining Images of African American Womanhood and Reshaping Social Policy;

O autorze

K. Sue Jewell is Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Black Studies at The Ohio State University.