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Real Sister: Stereotypes, Respectability, and Black Women in Reality TV
Jervette R. Ward (Ed.)
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Description for Real Sister: Stereotypes, Respectability, and Black Women in Reality TV
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From The Real Housewives of Atlanta to Flavor of Love, reality shows with predominantly black casts have often been criticized for their negative representation of African American women as loud, angry, and violent. Yet even as these programs appear to be rehashing old stereotypes of black women, the critiques of them are arguably problematic in their own way, as the notion of “respectability” has historically been used to police black women’s behaviors.
The first book of scholarship devoted to the issue of how black women are depicted on reality television, Real Sister offers an even-handed consideration of ... Read more
From The Real Housewives of Atlanta to Flavor of Love, reality shows with predominantly black casts have often been criticized for their negative representation of African American women as loud, angry, and violent. Yet even as these programs appear to be rehashing old stereotypes of black women, the critiques of them are arguably problematic in their own way, as the notion of “respectability” has historically been used to police black women’s behaviors.
The first book of scholarship devoted to the issue of how black women are depicted on reality television, Real Sister offers an even-handed consideration of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813575063
SKU
V9780813575063
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About Jervette R. Ward (Ed.)
JERVETTE R. WARD is an assistant professor of English at the University of Alaska Anchorage.
Reviews for Real Sister: Stereotypes, Respectability, and Black Women in Reality TV
"Every now and then a publication arrives that's right on time, and Real Sister is the read of the season … Cue the book club debates!"
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Essence Magazine
"A frank meditation on the images of black women in television’s most dominant form, Real Sister exposes the ways in which the ambivalent pleasures derived ... Read more
#1 in Patrik's Picks
Essence Magazine
"A frank meditation on the images of black women in television’s most dominant form, Real Sister exposes the ways in which the ambivalent pleasures derived ... Read more