{"product_id":"buy-black-9780252086359","title":"Buy Black","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBuy Black examines the role American Black women play in Black consumption in the US and worldwide, with a focus on their pivotal role in packaging Black feminine identity since the 1960s. Through an exploration of the dolls, princesses, and rags-to-riches stories that represent Black girlhood and womanhood in everything from haircare to Nicki Minaj's hip-hop, Aria S. Halliday spotlights how the products created by Black women have furthered Black women's position as the moral compass and arbiter of Black racial progress. Far-ranging and bold, Buy Black reveals what attitudes inform a contemporary Black sensibility based in representation and consumerism. It also traces the parameters of Black symbolic power, mapping the sites where intraracial ideals of blackness, womanhood, beauty, play, and sexuality meet and mix in consumer and popular culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The book's clear, accessible prose and pop culture subject matter will appeal to both lay readers and scholars who want to explore Black joy, creativity, and entrepreneurship in American culture. . . . Recommended.\" --\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A compelling analysis of the role American Black women have played in consumerism and popular culture, focusing on the 1960s to now. \" --\u003ci\u003eBusiness Insider\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"Important and accessible, Dr. Halliday’s latest book expertly examines Black women as cultural producers and consumers and their subsequent, undeniable influence on popular culture. \" --\u003ci\u003eMs. Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eBuy Black\u003c\/i\u003e offers an important and well-argued consideration of the Black women cultural producers who, in an effort to subvert a misogynoiristic system, sometimes traffic in the very stereotypical practices they wish to upend. Halliday’s concept of ‘embodied objectification’ helps to make clear our own investments in consumer capitalism and prompts us to be more circumspect about our participation as a means to some ultimately unsatisfying end.”--Moya Bailey, author of \u003ci\u003eMisogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e​\u003c\/i\u003e\"Halliday's courageous and informative concentrations will help shape a new understanding of underrepresented Black women and girls. She has much to offer as a powerful thinker and scholar.\" --\u003ci\u003eNew York Amsterdam News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e​\u003c\/i\u003e\"A brilliant and meticulously researched exploration of how ideas about representing blackness have been essential to the story of American consumerism and popular culture. In uncovering how Black women have transformed corporate discourses of multiculturalism and diversity by inserting their own imaginations, capabilities, and desires, \u003ci\u003eBuy Black\u003c\/i\u003e provides an extraordinary feminist reading of the role of race, gender, and class in the American consumer product industry. Aria Halliday’s book is essential reading.\"--Mireille Miller-Young, author of \u003ci\u003eA Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in Pornography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e​\u003c\/i\u003e\"A compelling analysis of the role American Black women have played in consumerism and popular culture, focusing on the 1960s to now. \" --\u003ci\u003eBusiness Insider\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Important and accessible, Dr. Halliday’s latest book expertly examines Black women as cultural producers and consumers and their subsequent, undeniable influence on popular culture. \" --\u003ci\u003eMs. Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"In focusing on Black women as culture-makers, the book provides a uniquely important view as to the ways that Black women's ingenuity and entrepreneurship have been largely overlooked in understanding these questions. I was consistently impressed with the author's ability to cast a wide net that moves across many topics, while keeping it all held together so that the shape and fit seem right.\"--Elizabeth Chin, author of \u003ci\u003eMy Life with Things: The Consumer Diaries\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures vii\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: The Making of Black Womanhood 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Theorizing Black Women’s Cultural Influence through Consumption 17\u003cbr\u003e 2. From Riots to Style: The History of Black Barbie 47\u003cbr\u003e 3. From Bootstraps to Glass Slippers: Black Women’s Uplift in Disney’s Princess Canon 79\u003cbr\u003e 4. A Black Barbie’s Moment: Nicki Minaj and the Struggle for Cultural Dominance 111\u003cbr\u003e Coda: The Stakes of Twenty-First-Century Black Creativity 143\u003cbr\u003e Notes 153\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 165\u003cbr\u003e Index 181","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400520311127,"sku":"9780252086359","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252086359.jpg?v=1730470883","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/buy-black-9780252086359","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}