Contested Images offers a collection of 17 essays that analyze the representations in popular culture of African American, Asian American, Latina, and Native American women.No other anthology offers this wide spectrum of ethnicities.

Acknowledgments
Credits
Introduction
Part I: Film Images
1 Ideological Racism and Cultural Resistance: Constructing Our Own Images, Yen Le Espiritu
2. Black Women's Films: Genesis of a Tradition, Jacqueline Bobo
3. Ghosts and Vanishing Indian Women: Death of the Celluloid Maiden in the 1990s, M. Elise Marubbio
4. Lost in the Cinematic Landscape: Chicanas as Lloronas inContemporary Film, Domino Renee Pérez
5. Chasing Fae: The Watermelon Woman and Black Lesbian Possibility, Laura L. Sullivan
Part II: Beauty Images
6. Hey Girl, Am I More than My Hair?: African American Women and Their Struggles with Beauty, Body Image, and Hair, Tracey Owens Patton
7. Barbie's Hair: Selling Out Puerto Rican Identity in the Global Market, Frances Negrón-Muntaner
8. The Pocahontas Perplex: The Image of Indian Women in American Culture, Rayna Green
9. Yearning for Lightness: Transnational Circuits in the Marketing and Consumption of Skin Lighteners, Evelyn Nakano Glenn
Part III: Music
10. Bad Sistas: Black Women Rappers and Sexual Politics in Rap Music, Tricia Rose
11. Jennifer as Selena: Rethinking Latinidad in Media and Popular Culture, Frances R. Aparicio
12. Passed into the Present: Women in Hawaiian Entertainment, Amy Ku'uleialoha Stillman
13. Cibo Matto's Stereotype A: Articulating Asian American Hip Pop, Jane C. H. Park
Part IV: Television
14. "Made to Be the Maid"?: An Examination of the Latina as Maid in Mainstream Film and Television, Rosa E. Soto
15. The Burden of History: Representations of American Indian Women in Popular Media, S. Elizabeth Bird
16. The Eurasian Female Hero(ine): Sydney Fox as Relic Hunter, Yasmin Jiwani
17. The Maddening Business of Show, Beretta E. Smith-Shomade
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