Acknowledgments -- Credits -- Introduction -- Part I : Film images. 1. Ideological racism and cultural resistance -- 2. Black women's films -- 3. Ghosts and vanishing Indian women -- 4. Lost in the cinematic landscape -- 5. Chasing Fae -- Part II : Beauty images. 6. Hey girl, am I more than my hair? -- 7. Barbie's hair -- 8. The Pocahontas perplex -- 9. Yearning for lightness -- Part III : Music. 10. Bad sistas -- 11. Jennifer as Selena -- 12. Passed into the present -- 13. Cibo Matto's stereotype A -- Part IV : Television. 14. "Made to be the maid"? -- 15. The burden of history -- 16. The Eurasian female hero(ine) -- 17. The maddening business of show
Summary:
Contested Images offers a collection of 17 essays that analyze the representations in popular culture of African American, Asian American, Latina, and Native American women. No other anthology offers this wide spectrum of ethnicities
