TY - BOOK ID - 77883816 TI - She's Mad Real PY - 2011 SN - 0814765289 9780814753125 0814753124 9780814765289 9780814752470 0814752470 9780814752487 0814752489 PB - New York, NY DB - UniCat KW - Consumer behavior KW - West Indians KW - Minority youth KW - African American girls KW - Afro-American girls KW - Girls, African American KW - Girls KW - Youth KW - Ethnology KW - Behavior, Consumer KW - Buyer behavior KW - Decision making, Consumer KW - Human behavior KW - Consumer profiling KW - Market surveys KW - Social life and customs. KW - Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77883816 AB - 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 LaBennett draws on over a decade of researching teenage West Indian girls in the Flatbush and Crown Heights sections of Brooklyn to argue that Black youth are in fact strategic consumers of popular culture and through this consumption they assert far more agency in defining race, ethnicity, and gender than academic and popular discourses tend to acknowledge. Importantly, LaBennett also studies West Indian girls’ consumer and leisure culture within public spaces in order to analyze how teens like China are marginalized and policed as they attempt to carve out places for themselves within New York’s contested terrains. ER -