From Mammy to Miss America and Beyond: Cultural Images and the Shaping of US Soc

Description: From Mammy to Miss America and Beyond by K. Sue Jewell Passionately written and supported with detailed evidence, Karen Sue Jewell reveals the formal and informal ways in which African-American women have been excluded from equal participation. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This challenging book examines the relationship between cultural images and the formulation, administration and impact of US social policy on Black women. The author focuses specifically on methods by which individuals in the USA who control social institutions - in particular the mass media - operate to retain their own power advantage while at the same time maintaining African-American women in a socially and economically depressed state. K. Sue Jewell argues that the mass media play an important role in maintaining a social hierarchy of discrimination because it is the primary vehicle by which ideology is transmitted through news and entertainment. She explains how the mass media, controlled by the nations power elite, transmit images of African-American women that suggest that their values, beliefs and behaviours (and not race, gender and class inequality) are responsible for their limited access to social resourses and institutions. She goes on to consider how this situation can be changed and proposes strategies for accomplishing social transformation and a reallocation of resourses.She argues that the main obstacle to those wanting change is fear of reprisals from the privileged elite and their functionaries. Fearless and passionate, and copiously supported with evidence, the book is an important contribution to our knowledge of the role of the mass media in the development of cultural imagery and its influence on US social policy. It will be of immense interest to students of media, the sociology of gender and race, and social policy. Back Cover Passionately written and supported with detailed evidence, this book shows the deeply rooted cancer of oppression in American society. It reveals the formal and informal ways in which African-American women have been excluded from equal participation before and after the time of slavery. It will shock many who complacently believe that America is already a land of equality and it will give new heart to the many others who experience racism and sexism as daily facts of life. Author Biography K. Sue Jewell is Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Black Studies at The Ohio State University. Table of Contents Chapter 1 The Status of African American Women; Chapter 2 The Social Significance of Cultural Imagery; Chapter 3 Cultural Images as Symbols of African American Womanhood; Chapter 4 Imagery of African American Womanhood; Chapter 5 Cultural Imagery of African American Women and Empiricism; Chapter 6 Gender-Oriented Social Policy; Chapter 7 The US Legal System; Chapter 8 Determining Entitlements; Chapter 9 A Microcultural Response; Chapter 10 Redefining Images of African American Womanhood and Reshaping Social Policy; Review `From Mammy to Miss America and beyond is a long overdue cultural history of African-American female subjectivity as is has been produced through the white, Anglocentric and patriachal industries of entertainment, advertising and the government. Jewell mounts a forceful project that is not only able to loosen the grip of white culture on the image of the African-American woman but demystify its ideological hegemony in order to transform existing policies and social practices towards a more just and equitable order. - Peter McLaren, Renowned Scolar in Residence, Miami University of Ohio Details ISBN0415087775 Author K. Sue Jewell Language English ISBN-10 0415087775 ISBN-13 9780415087773 Media Book Format Hardcover Illustrations Yes Imprint Routledge Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Edition 1st Short Title FROM MAMMY TO MISS AMER & BEYO Subtitle Cultural Images and the Shaping of US Social Policy DOI 10.1604/9780415087773 UK Release Date 1992-11-26 AU Release Date 1992-11-26 NZ Release Date 1992-11-26 Pages 250 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Year 1992 Publication Date 1992-11-26 Alternative 9780415042536 DEWEY 305.48896073 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:134409778;

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