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In part two of a series on the anthology Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn: Feminized Popular Culture in the Early 21st Century, Kristen Warner discusses the "Passions" section, where scholars consider how pleasure functions for women viewers who use female-centric media texts as models for who they want to be and what they want to...
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Django Unchained functions as a product of post-race logic that paradoxically deals with a culturally specific thematic--slavery--while making the central storyline so universal slavery functions as a terribly horrific backdrop for a love story.
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Its the pairing of disrepute with respectability that makes the BET Awards akin to a Black Family reunion.
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Is the exclusion of blackness on Mad Men an oversight, a strategic choice, or a reflection of the continuing privilege of whiteness?
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