.... Copyright © 2010 Smith College 2010 cosmopolitan whiteness beauty ideal transnational feminism affect theory advertisement Skin-whitening advertisements dominate the landscape of Indonesian women’s magazines. Often, these whitening advertisements appear on the first page of such magazines...

... ad: tanning ads. Transnational Contacts and CosmoContexts THE RACIALIZED BEAUTY IDEAL IN TRANSNATIONAL INDONESIA In Indonesia, a country of 300 ethnic groups, the formation of beauty ideals, articulated through racial, skin color, and gender discourses, has historically been transnational. As seen...

... recognize a natural tendency to exchange cultures or associate with other cultures. This is not the case in a situation where Christian conversion and education teach white ideals of beauty to the negation oflocal values and ideals. Agencies such as the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA), founded...

... room; however, this may not be the ideal healing space for Black women who want to really let their hair down together. Health care professionals often underestimate the value of hair in the daily lives and well-being of Black women. Hair texture, length, and style often guide an overwhelming force...

...Ginetta E. B. Candelario Copyright © 2000 Wesleyan University Press, now published by Duke University Press on behalf of Smith College 2000 Use to be Ya could learn a whole lot of stuff sitting in them beauty shop chairs Use to be Ya could meet a whole lot of other women...

..., "learn a whole lot of stuff sittin' in them beauty shop chairs." Here, the concern is to present both the representational and the production practices of hair culture as a window into the contextualized complexity of Dominican identity. The hair culture institutions, practices, and ideals of Dominican...

...Beauty Bragg; Pancho McFarland Abstract The discourse on gender and sexuality in rap music is dominated by the pornographic. Women of color contending with demeaning pornographic images have entered the discourse though many routes. JV and Ms. Sancha exemplify the two predominant approaches...

... in the colonial lore of female shapeshifters and sorceresses provides a counterreading to the beautiful and subservient woman of color of colonial fantasies. By situating West Indian femininity in a genealogy of supernatural camouflage, subterfuge, and transformation, Capécia and Césaire undermine misogynist...

... a strange balance of praiseworthy and abhorrent features. He remarked: This was not a beautiful work, but it was a very original and very striking one, and it deserves particular comment, as its ideal was so radically different from those adopted by [William Wetmore] Story and [Thomas Ridgeway] Gould...

... of its skits, A Black Lady Sketch Show featured the comic talents of Ashley Nicole Black, Quinta Brunson, and Gabrielle Denis (HBO n.d.). Though these comics broach numerous subjects, three of the most persistent are self-image/standards of beauty, male/female relationships, and parenting. Most...

...: advertisements). Surreal literary representations, idealized dolls, and the media are brought into the intimate worlds of black children. That is to say, in worrying the line with Western ideologies, Bluestunites the commoditized images with lived experience, and introduces protagonists who embody the antithesis...

... desires to "become" a member of a "nonwhite/darker-skinned race." The Japanese "whitening" phenomenon is equally complex; bihaku is linked not just to the desiring of "white skin" in the abstract as a beauty standard, but also crucially to the notnecessarily-racially-specific ideal of "youthfulness...

..., Dreamlandproblematizes the homogeneous image of the nuclear black middle-class family, whose idealized representation is reified in family portraits and home movies. 12 With these varying depictions of black women's lived experiences, Tamara's documentary aims to reveal black women's "beauty as it finally is, even...

... —        this is my book of holy things the first time my mother flew away, I was still learning my first language, my psalms of paalam, which is to say my mother tongue is absence, is classifying beautiful birds in flight, is fibrous diaspore that the wind lifts into myth next, it was my turn...

...Vanita Reddy Abstract This essay examines Indian American writer Jhumpa Lahiri's literary engagements with cosmopolitan Indian beauty and style in her short stories “Sexy” and “Interpreter of Maladies” (2003). It situates these engagements as part of a transnational beauty assemblage...

... protagonist’s beauty in Bharati Mukherjee’s novel Jasmine (1989); this is a physical attractiveness that repeatedly reveals both the potential and the failures of national and transnational belonging for diasporic Indian women. Chapter 2 shifts the focus to Jhumpa Lahiri’s collection of short stories...

... are not vanishing, but becoming." A fine-grained commentary on transnational representations is provided by Ginetta Candelario's description of women in a Dominican community in New YorkCity in her essay "Hair Race -ing: Dominican Beauty Culture and Identity Production." In her study of beauty practices and ideals...

... Press, 2007) which notes that the Dominican beauty ideal is not white, but is instead brown, thought of as a blending of African and European features. 3. See Davies 1994 for discussion of both the common intellectual project of Black women's writing and the need for their analysts to consider the local...

... prescribed as private, but who live and move in public ways. Barbadian women can call on diasporic resources throughout the African diaspora, and in the post-independence moment, their African heritage interacts with a black-nationalist and black feminist ethos in the form of the African Queen ideal.2...

... understanding of age = beauty still holds true. Mothers don’t dance. Daughters do. This axiom reveals the very structures of expressive cultural systems, which rely on a logic wherein beauty, as a synonym for marriage potential, innocence, and daughterhood, emerges as the ultimate capital. In the United States...