Reading Black and Latina Embodiment in Miami -- Sexual-Aesthetic Excess: Or, How Chonga Girls Make Class Burn -- "Fine as Hell": The Aesthetic Erotics of Masculinity -- Interlude -- Rococo Pink: The Power of Nicki Minaj's Aesthetics of Fakery -- Interlude -- Encounters with Exce…
Heavy makeup, gaudy jewelry, dramatic hairstyles, and clothes that are considered cheap, fake, too short, too tight, or too masculine: working-class Black and Latina girls and women are often framed as embodying "excessive" styles that are presumed to indicate sexual deviance. I…
"Aesthetics of Excess examines how the bodies of women and girls of color are racialized through cultural discourses of aesthetic value that mark them as sexual "others," and how in turn, aesthetic value is generated through the presentation of their bodies. Hernandez employs pa…
"Aesthetics of Excess examines how the bodies of women and girls of color are racialized through cultural discourses of aesthetic value that mark them as sexual "others," and how in turn, aesthetic value is generated through the presentation of their bodies. Hernandez employs pa…