Sheas Mad Real: Popular Culture and West Indian Girls in Brooklyn

by Oneka LaBennett

Book Overview

Overwhelmingly, Black teenage girls are negatively represented in national and global popular discourses, either as being "at risk" for teenage pregnancy, obesity, or sexually transmitted diseases, or as helpless victims of inner city poverty and violence. Such popular representations are pervasive and often portray Black adolescents' consumer and leisure culture as corruptive, uncivilized, and pathological.

In She's Mad Real, Oneka...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814752489
• ISBN13: 9780814752487
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 253 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"