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**Please join us this Monday 10/29**
American Studies in the 21st Century: A Colloquium Series
Presents
"White Girls Behaving Badly: Reality TV and Gender Politics Post 9/11"
with
Zine Magubane
October 29th, 2007
Nolte Hall room 125
3:30pm
Zine Magubane is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Boston College.
She received her PhD from Harvard University.
Postcolonial theory has shown that women function as 'boundary
markers' of empire. This talk will draw a link between the
proliferation of images of 'out of control' young white women on
reality TV and the manner in which gender and gender roles are being
discussed in this new age of empire. It will focus on the reality TV
shows My Super Sweet Sixteen and Bridezilla, showing how anxieties
about gender and power are continually produced and reproduced in
these shows about what we have now come to understand as iconic
female rites of passage. The talk will conclude with a discussion of
the ways in which, to quote Toni Morrison, an 'Africanist presence'
gets deployed in these discussions of white female rebellion, by
contrasting images of white 'out of control women' with images of
African American women who are engaged in seemingly similar behavior.
Co-Sponsored by African American and African Studies; Sociology;
Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies. .
For further information contact:
Department of American Studies
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
#612-624-4190
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