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Blanca' from the block: whiteness and the transnational Latina body
| Magazine Title | Genders: Presenting Innovative Work, in the Arts, Humanities and Social Theories |
| Magazine Year | 2005 |
| Magazine Number | 41 |
| Pages | [z.p.] |
| Language | English/Engels |
| Description | With the otherness of the Latina's possibly inherited black body, we see mainstream U.S. society’s struggle to define and regulate just how black the mestiza can be before she is no longer a 'white woman of color.' Many Latina's among the second and third generation have embraced this category of the Latina as a chosen referent for a perceived historical experience, collective memory, and cultural expression that make them both American and resistant to full cultural assimilation. Latina singer J.Lo, Jennifer Lopez, re-invents herself constantly as a woman of a thousand ethnic faces, she remains a de-Africanized emblem of the new Latina. However, even as the marketing of Jennifer Lopez depends on her representative status as a Middle-America-friendly new Latina, her 'jungle rump' acts as the displacement for a contradictory set of anxieties and desires about the 'blackness' that always threatens to return and undo this identity formation. |
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