Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Prelude: Haiku Part I. Text Messages 1. Pop Goes Democracy: Mediating Race, Gender, and Nation on American Idol 2. Understanding "The New Black": Destabilizing Blackness in the New Millennium 3. Body as Evidence: The Facts of Blackness, the Fictions of Whiteness Interlude: Hip Hop Hegemony Part II. Geo Trackings 4. Digital Whiteness, Primitive Blackness: Racializing the "Digital Divide" 5. Digital Divas Strike Back: Digital Cultures and Feminist Futures 6. Exotic Sisterhood: The Limits and Possibilities of Global Feminism Postlude: Technologies of the Flesh Epilogue: Widening Our Lens on the World Notes References Index

About the Author

Janell Hobson is Associate Professor of Women's Studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York. She is the author of Venus in the Dark: Blackness and Beauty in Popular Culture.

Reviews

"Hobson's book is a tour de force that convincingly and bravely asserts the need for continued attention to the intersection of race and gender; it is a wake-up call for the millennial generation that the fight for justice and equality is far from over." - Signs "...Hobson is keenly attuned to the distance between what's been attained and what's yet to be, and the dissonance between what's reported and how life is truly lived." - Ms. Magazine "By racializing the analysis of technology, Janell Hobson brings to the forefront some very important issues regarding the digital divide. There is a tendency in some areas of academia to wholeheartedly celebrate new technologies without giving enough thought to how class, gender, race, and geographical divisions affect both the production and consumption ends of the chain." - Gail Dines, coeditor of Gender, Race, and Class in Media: A Critical Reader, Third Edition