Aesthetics of Excess: The Art and Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment by Jillian Hernandez

Aesthetics of Excess: The Art and Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment

Jillian Hernandez

320 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction emotional reflective medium-paced
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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 presume...

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