Black Women as Cultural Readers

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by Jacqueline Bobo

Type

Studies

Subject

Sociology

Keywords

African Americans, sociology, United States

Publishing date

1995

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Collection

Film and Culture

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 224 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN-10
ISBN-13

0-231-08395-5
978-0-231-08395-9

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Book Presentation:
Bobo demonstrates that African-American women, as a separate interpretive community, view cultural products in a unique way. In interviews with black women, she examines their specific responses as spectators and consumers of films and novels, including Waiting to Exhale, The Color Purple, and Daughters of the Dust.

About the Author:
Jacqueline Bobo is Chair and Associate Professor of Women's Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is editor of the anthology, Black Feminist Cultural Criticism: Classic Readings (Blackwell Publishers, January 2001) and of Black Women Film and Video Artists (Routledge, 1998).

See the publisher website: Columbia University Press