... of Cosmopolitan and skin-tanning products in the American version of Cosmopolitan, the author points out the construction of “cosmopolitan whiteness.” Whiteness is not simply racialized or nationalized as such, but transnationalized. Whiteness is represented as “cosmopolitanness,” embodying transnational mobility...

... advertisements for skin-whitening products in the Indonesian version of Cosmopolitan and skin-tanning products in the American version of Cosmopolitan , I point out the construction of “cosmopolitan whiteness.” Whiteness is not simply racialized or nationalized as such, but transnationalized. Whiteness...

... ofimitating "white" standards of beauty is a case in point. In this issue Ayu Saraswati argues that the skin-whitening practices among women of color should not be reflexivelyconflated with the desire to emulate the "Caucasian whiteness" of women of European descent. Her essay, "Cosmopolitan Whiteness...

... the Representation of Asian Women in Film and Fiction .” Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism 10 , no. 2 : 141 – 62 . Saraswati L. Ayu . 2010 . “ Cosmopolitan Whiteness: The Effects and Affects of Skin-Whitening Advertisements in a Transnational Women’s Magazine in Indonesia .” Meridians...

... desires for, respectively, cosmopolitan and transnational belonging, while also illuminating the limitations of national attachments. The first section of the essay examines in "Sexy" the white American female protagonist Miranda's desires for cosmopolitan belonging, which is defined by transnational...

...Jennifer D. Williams; Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo Copyright © 2017 Smith College 2017 JENNIFER D. WILLIAMS AND lFEOMA KIDDOE NWANKWO Travelin'Women: BlackFeminist Migrations,Diasporas, and Cosmopolitanisms "Not only would I become a writer but a travelin' woman as well." -Paule Marshall...

... cocktail of choice), and various New YorkCity streets and neighborhoods. In dominant white chick lit, consumption is often reduced to commodity consumption, especially of name-brand designer items, which functions as a significant marker of the characters' choice and cosmopolitan social capital. Most...

... for an avant-garde global identity. Women stand at the forefront of transnational forms oflife, and as the rhetoric of childbearing suggests, they control the reproduction of this world without borders. In this essay, I explore how cosmopolitan feminist visions of motherhood and fertility emerge in the fiction...

...Caren Kaplan Copyright © 2001 by Wesleyan University Press 2001 ESSAY HillaryRodhamClinton's Orient Cosmopolitan Travel and Global Feminist Subjects CAREN KAPLAN TheEastisa career. -Benjamin DisraeliT,ancred In the spring of 1999, HillaryRodham Clinton, the First Ladyof the United States...

...-CLASSJAMAICANWOMEN 417 World War II in Europe, such as "Invasion" (in which the speaker comments on the Allied forces' various offensives), and "White Pickney," which addresses the socioeconomic effects of war in Jamaica by focusing on the large numbers of biracial children born to soldiers and local women. Several...

..., Cuban, and Brazilian cultural-historic themes. SHAMEEM BLACK is Assistant Professor of English at YaleUniversity. She is currently working on a manuscript about cosmopolitan poetics and transcultural imagination in contemporary literature. Her previous study of homoerotic authorial influence appeared...

... readily characterize her voyage as "cosmopolitanism" or "travel writing." Yet Mario Cesareo's concise distinction between these two concepts elucidates common understandings of these terms and the ways in which they fall short of explaining the tensions in which I am primarily interested. Cesareo notes...

... elides black participation in emancipation but reiterates a statement Renehan quotes from a NewYorkHeraldarticle contemporary with the raid: "This is no list oflow-born, ignorant, and despised traitors to the Union and its States," the piece comments on the white aristocrats' involvement...

... diasporic subjectivities and knowledges is produced and interpreted. Theorizing the complexities of the risks involved for Asian subjects who are ensnared in the gaze of white nationalism, Eleanor Ty ( 2004 , 22) writes that in some instances, “it was to one’s advantage to act the way Asians were expected...

... them to shape a powerful cosmopolitan feminist rhetoric." And in Luz Calvo's essay "Art Comes for the Archbishop: The Semiotics of Contemporary Chicana Feminism and EDITOR'S FAREWELL VII the Work of Alma Lopez" as well as in Melinda Luisa de Jestis's "Of Monsters and Mothers: Filipina American Identity...

... our culture, we often swallow our pride to read offensive works. 2 Richards, a colonial white woman anthropologist, observed the Chisungu ceremony of the Bemba people, who are now located in Zambia, in 1931.At the time she wrote, Richards knew that this specific culture that she was recording...

... in predominately white private schools and an IvyLeague university, and escape to France. I was struck by the main character's odd combination of boldness and naivete as she discovers the complicated ways race and sex cross transnational borders and realizes one can never completely leave home behind. Prior...

... in the West today, the South Asian diaspora-desis such as Nina and Krishnaplays a key role, of course. Their nostalgia, their triadic political identity (shuttling among home, adopted country, and cosmopolitan and cosmocratic aspirations), and their love of visual culture and performance, it has been argued...

... by White people, his younger brother is unemployed and friendly with other young Black men in the same situation, and his aunt and grandfather also live nearby. An amorous and sexual relationship develops between Demetrius and Mina. The affair between Mina and Demetrius is a key means through which...

..., demanding their enslavement and/or destruction (Smith 2006). Alongside settler colonialism (foreigners staying on conquered land) and heteropatriarchy, Orientalism for Smith constitutes one of the "three pillars" of white supremacy, enabling certain non-European modernized countries to approximate the power...