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Sociologist Ashley Mears takes us behind the brightly lit runways and glossy advertisements of the fashion industry in this insider's study of the world of modeling. Mears, who worked as a model in New York and London, draws on observations as well as extensive interviews with male and female models, agents, clients, photographers, stylists, and others, to explore the economics and politics-and the arbitrariness- behind the business of glamour. Exploring a largely hidden arena of cultural production, she shows how the right "look" is discovered, developed, and packaged to become a prized commodity. She examines how models sell themselves, how agents promote them, and how clients decide to hire them. An original contribution to the sociology of work in the new cultural economy, Pricing Beauty offers rich, accessible analysis of the invisible ways in which gender, race, and class shape worth in the marketplace.

Models (Persons) --- Modeling agencies. --- Fashion shows. --- Style shows --- Advertising --- Agencies, Modeling --- Model agencies --- Employment agencies --- Clothing models --- Fashion models --- House models --- Mannequins (Persons) --- Models, Fashion --- Employees --- Modeling agencies --- Clothing and dress --- beauty consumption. --- beauty standards. --- cultural economy. --- cultural production. --- cultural theory. --- culture studies. --- ethnography. --- fashion economy. --- fashion industry. --- fashion models. --- fashion studies. --- fashion world. --- female models. --- gender studies. --- insider perspective. --- london. --- male models. --- modeling agents. --- modeling politics. --- modeling. --- new york. --- nonfiction. --- personal observations. --- photographers. --- race and class. --- runway models. --- selling beauty. --- social science. --- sociologists. --- sociology. --- stylists.

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How black Americans use digital networks to organize and cultivate solidarityUnrest gripped Ferguson, Missouri, after Mike Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was shot and killed by Officer Darren Wilson in August 2014. Many black Americans turned to their digital and social media networks to circulate information, cultivate solidarity, and organize during that tumultuous moment. While Ferguson and the subsequent protests made black digital networks visible to mainstream media, these networks did not coalesce overnight. They were built and maintained over years through common, everyday use.Beyond Hashtags explores these everyday practices and their relationship to larger social issues through an in-depth analysis of a trans-platform network of black American digital and social media users and content creators. In the crucial years leading up to the emergence of the Movement for Black Lives, black Americans used digital networks not only to cope with day-to-day experiences of racism, but also as an incubator for the debates that have since exploded onto the national stage. Beyond Hashtags tells the story of an influential subsection of these networks, an assemblage of podcasting, independent media, Instagram, Vine, Facebook, and the network of Twitter users that has come to be known as "Black Twitter." Florini looks at how black Americans use these technologies often simultaneously to create a space to reassert their racial identities, forge community, organize politically, and create alternative media representations and news sources. Beyond Hashtags demonstrates how much insight marginalized users have into technology.

African American mass media. --- African Americans and mass media. --- Race in mass media. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global). --- 2016 US presidential election. --- Black Lives Matter. --- Black Twitter. --- Black cultural production. --- Black enclaves. --- Black innovation. --- Black social spaces. --- Ferguson. --- Martin Luther King Jr. --- Mike Brown. --- This Week in Blackness. --- Trayvon Martin. --- Zimmerman. --- affordances. --- alternative media production. --- anti-Black racism. --- citizen journalism. --- collective grieving. --- colorblindness. --- counterpublics. --- digital technology. --- historical narrative. --- independent media production. --- mainstream legacy media. --- media narratives. --- monetization. --- neoliberal. --- neoliberalism. --- oscillating networked publics. --- podcasts. --- police brutality. --- political engagement. --- political establishment. --- racial discourse. --- racial landscape. --- racial oppression. --- social justice. --- solidarity. --- transplatform. --- white supremacy.

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Unrest gripped Ferguson, Missouri, after Mike Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was shot and killed by Officer Darren Wilson in August 2014. Many black Americans turned to their digital and social media networks to circulate information, cultivate solidarity, and organize during that tumultuous moment. While Ferguson and the subsequent protests made black digital networks visible to mainstream media, these networks did not coalesce overnight. They were built and maintained over years through common, everyday use. Beyond Hashtags explores these everyday practices and their relationship to larger social issues through an in-depth analysis of a trans-platform network of black American digital and social media users and content creators. In the crucial years leading up to the emergence of the Movement for Black Lives, black Americans used digital networks not only to cope with day-to-day experiences of racism, but also as an incubator for the debates that have since exploded onto the national stage. Beyond Hashtags tells the story of an influential subsection of these networks, an assemblage of podcasting, independent media, Instagram, Vine, Facebook, and the network of Twitter users that has come to be known as "Black Twitter." Florini looks at how black Americans use these technologies often simultaneously to create a space to reassert their racial identities, forge community, organize politically, and create alternative media representations and news sources. Beyond Hashtags demonstrates how much insight marginalized users have into technology. --

African Americans and mass media. --- African American mass media. --- Race in mass media. --- Mass media --- Afro-American mass media --- Mass media, African American --- Ethnic mass media --- Afro-Americans and mass media --- Mass media and African Americans --- 2016 US presidential election. --- Black Lives Matter. --- Black Twitter. --- Black cultural production. --- Black enclaves. --- Black innovation. --- Black social spaces. --- Ferguson. --- Martin Luther King Jr. --- Mike Brown. --- This Week in Blackness. --- Trayvon Martin. --- Zimmerman. --- affordances. --- alternative media production. --- anti-Black racism. --- citizen journalism. --- collective grieving. --- colorblindness. --- counterpublics. --- digital technology. --- historical narrative. --- independent media production. --- mainstream legacy media. --- media narratives. --- monetization. --- neoliberal. --- neoliberalism. --- oscillating networked publics. --- podcasts. --- police brutality. --- political engagement. --- political establishment. --- racial discourse. --- racial landscape. --- racial oppression. --- social justice. --- solidarity. --- transplatform. --- white supremacy. --- Race dans les médias. --- Médias noirs américains. --- Noirs américains et médias.

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"Crowning Glories integrates Louis XIV's propaganda campaigns, the transmission of Northern art into France, and the rise of empiricism in the eighteenth century--three historical touchstones--to examine what it would have meant for France's elite to experience the arts in France simultaneously with Netherlandish realist painting. In an expansive study of cultural life under the Sun King, Harriet Stone considers the monarchy's elaborate palace decors, the court's official records, and the classical theatre alongside Northern images of daily life in private homes, urban markets, and country fields. Stone argues that Netherlandish art assumes an unobtrusive yet, for the history of ideas, surprisingly dramatic role within the flourishing of the arts, both visual and textual, in France during Louis XIV's reign. Netherlandish realist art represented thinking about knowledge that challenged the monarchy's hold on the French imagination, and its efforts to impose the king's portrait as an ideal and proof of his authority. As objects appreciated for their aesthetic and market value, Northern realist paintings assumed an uncontroversial place in French royal and elite collections. Flemish and Dutch still lifes, genre paintings, and cityscapes, however, were not merely accoutrements of power, acquisitions made by those with influence and money. Crowning Glories reveals how the empirical orientation of Netherlandish realism exposed French court society to a radically different mode of thought, one that would gain full expression in the Encyclopedie of Diderot and d'Alembert."--

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Local Histories/Global Designs is an extended argument about the "coloniality" of power by one of the most innovative Latin American and Latino scholars. In a shrinking world where sharp dichotomies, such as East/West and developing/developed, blur and shift, Walter Mignolo points to the inadequacy of current practices in the social sciences and area studies. He explores the crucial notion of "colonial difference" in the study of the modern colonial world and traces the emergence of an epistemic shift, which he calls "border thinking." Further, he expands the horizons of those debates already under way in postcolonial studies of Asia and Africa by dwelling in the genealogy of thoughts of South/Central America, the Caribbean, and Latino/as in the United States. His concept of "border gnosis," or sensing and knowing by dwelling in imperial/colonial borderlands, counters the tendency of occidentalist perspectives to manage, and thus limit, understanding. In a new preface that discusses Local Histories/Global Designs as a dialogue with Hegel's Philosophy of History, Mignolo connects his argument with the unfolding of history in the first decade of the twenty-first century.

Postcolonialism. --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Hermeneutics. --- Culture. --- Colonies. --- Interpretation, Methodology of --- Criticism --- Epistemology --- Theory of knowledge --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization --- Anti-colonialism --- Colonial affairs --- Colonialism --- Neocolonialism --- Imperialism --- Non-self-governing territories --- Colonization --- Political aspects. --- Social aspects --- Caribbean. --- Central America. --- Crolization. --- Eurocentrism. --- Florencia Mallon. --- Haitian Revolution. --- Latin America. --- Latin American Subaltern Studies Group. --- Maghreb. --- Occidentalism. --- Orientalism. --- South America. --- South Asian subaltern studies. --- anthropologians. --- anthropologists. --- area studies. --- border thinking. --- civilization borders. --- civilizing process. --- coevalness. --- colonial India. --- colonial borderland. --- colonial difference. --- colonial epistemic difference. --- colonial histories. --- community formation. --- cultural production. --- cultural revolutions. --- culture. --- deconstruction. --- disarticulations. --- epistemic colonial difference. --- geohistorical locations. --- geopolitical configurations. --- geopolitical values. --- geopolitics. --- global designs. --- hegemonic knowledges. --- hierarchical structures. --- identification. --- imperial borderland. --- imperial conflicts. --- knowledge production. --- language. --- languages. --- literature. --- literatures. --- migrations. --- modern colonial world. --- modern world system. --- modernity. --- nation borders. --- national ideologies. --- national languages. --- new world order. --- other thinking. --- other tongue. --- planetary civilization. --- post-Occidentalism. --- postcolonial Africa. --- postcolonial Asia. --- postcoloniality. --- postmodernism. --- postpartition India. --- power. --- racial configurations. --- social sciences. --- subaltern knowledges. --- technoglobalism. --- transmodernity. --- world system analysis.