TY - BOOK AU - Bernard,Regina Andrea TI - Black and brown waves: the cultural politics of young women of color and feminism T2 - Transgressions SN - 9789087908102 AV - HQ1421 .B48 2009 CY - Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Boston PB - Sense Publishers. KW - African American feminists KW - Social conditions KW - 21st century KW - African American women N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-154); Filmography: pages 155-158; Preliminary Material -- The Third Wave of Feminism and Women of Color -- Growing up Female in the Kitchen -- The Pink Nipple Syndrome -- Beautiful -- Television, Music, and the American Idol Hysteria -- Ellen, the L Word and Girls who Question -- How to Detox -- A Letter to My Female Students -- Notes -- References -- Film, Television and Music -- Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education N2 - This book discusses a critical analysis of the cultural atmosphere surrounding young women of color and the influence of this culture on their development as females in a society that embodies race, class and gender as the forefront of self-identity. Analyzing magazines and popular series novels, television shows, social and academic spaces and personal life experiences of young women of color, the book explores from historical forms of understanding and interpreting females of color and their role in youth culture to what those practices and spaces look like today UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789087908102 ER -