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.
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