Jillian Hernandez
Biographic Data
| ID | 3630122 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jillian Hernandez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jillian |
| FAMILY NAME | Hernandez |
| SIGNATURE | HERNANDEZ J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California San Diego |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Full Sets Demand Full Lives: Manicured Hands and Nails in Contemporary Art
This article interprets and contextualizes manicured hands and nails in works by visual and popular culture artists Pamela Council, Tidawhitney Lek, Leikeli 47, Yvette Mayorga, Kendra Stepp-Davis, and collaborators Bebe and Summer Houston. By focusing on hands, fingers, and nails, these artists respond to the physical vulnerability of people of color in the United States and the commodification of racialized feminine aesthetics. In so doing, they…
You and me against the world: Black femmehood and citizenship in Kenya (Robinson)'s Patriot Games (2021)
Fugitive State
This essay engages the activism of Oluwatoyin “Toyin” Salau, along with Black feminist cultural productions such as the 2019 song “Almeda” by Solange and Melina Matsoukas’s 2019 film Queen and Slim, to offer a cimarrona approach for practicing Florida study. The cimarrona is a rebellious being who can lead us to apply a radical lens for understanding life, freedom struggles, and death in Florida—one that underscores the refusal of Blackness, whic…
Beautifully Incomplete, Abject Objects: Studies of Racialized Gender, Desire, and the Power of the Aesthetic
Beautifully Incomplete, Abject Objects: Studies of Racialized Gender, Desire, and the Power of the Aesthetic Jillian Hernandez (bio) Abject Performances: Aesthetic Strategies in Latino Cultural Production. By Leticia Alvarado. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. 232 pages. $99.95 (cloth). $25.95 (paper). Ornamentalism. By Anne Anlin Cheng. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 224 pages. $31.95 (cloth). Ricanness: Enduring Time in Anticol…
Beauty marks: The Latinx surfaces of loving, becoming, and mourning
There are few conceptual frameworks for tarrying with racialized gendered Latinx surface beyond analyses of representation. One entry point could be the beauty mark, the made-up face, and objects/materials such as glitter, nails, and rolos (hair rollers) – those surfaces and things that bind me in memory to my grandmother, and, by extension, to other women in my family as well. This text enacts a performative and theoretical exploration of the on…
Queer of Color Space-Making in and beyond the Academic Industrial Complex
Paola Bacchetta, Fatima El-Tayeb, Jin Haritaworn, Jillian Hernandez, SA Smythe, Vanessa E. Thompson, Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, Queer of Color Space-Making in and beyond the Academic Industrial Complex, Critical Ethnic Studies, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Spring 2018), pp. 44-63
The Ambivalent Grotesque: Reading Black Women’s Erotic Corporeality in Wangechi Mutu’s Work
Internationally renowned contemporary artist Wangechi Mutu is known for her collages that craft sexual and grotesque women's bodies by combining images of models from high fashion magazines, racialized pornography, and ethnographic photographs of African villagers. The discussion of gender in relation to Mutu's practice has been overwhelmingly framed through issues of sexual violence, exploitation, and trauma suffered by black women. Mutu's descr…
Sexual knowledge and practiced feminisms: On moral panic, black girlhoods, and hip hop: Carney et al.
Disruptions in Respectability: A Roundtable Discussion
What do the politics of representation present in the realm of knowledge production? This roundtable of scholars of gender, sexuality, Black, and Latino studies circle the discussion around this question by positioning politics of representation and respectability within the realm of popular culture, pornography studies, and other highly consumed forms of media. The discussion also points toward themes of intramural policing, and other forms of o…
Carnal teachings: Raunch aesthetics as queer feminist pedagogies in Yo! Majesty's hip hop practice
This essay puts forward a notion of “raunch aesthetics,” theorizing raunch as an aesthetic, performative, and vernacular practice: an explicit mode of sexual expression that transgresses norms of privacy and respectability. Raunch aesthetics describe creative practices that often blend humor and sexual explicitness to launch cultural critiques, generate pleasure for minority audiences, and affirm queer lives. The author activates her formulation …
Carnal teachings: Raunch aesthetics as queer feminist pedagogies in Yo! Majesty's hip hop practice
This essay puts forward a notion of “raunch aesthetics,” theorizing raunch as an aesthetic, performative, and vernacular practice: an explicit mode of sexual expression that transgresses norms of privacy and respectability. Raunch aesthetics describe creative practices that often blend humor and sexual explicitness to launch cultural critiques, generate pleasure for minority audiences, and affirm queer lives. The author activates her formulation …
Queer of Color Space-Making in and beyond the Academic Industrial Complex
Paola Bacchetta, Fatima El-Tayeb, Jin Haritaworn, Jillian Hernandez, SA Smythe, Vanessa E. Thompson, Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, Queer of Color Space-Making in and beyond the Academic Industrial Complex, Critical Ethnic Studies, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Spring 2018), pp. 44-63
Disruptions in Respectability: A Roundtable Discussion
What do the politics of representation present in the realm of knowledge production? This roundtable of scholars of gender, sexuality, Black, and Latino studies circle the discussion around this question by positioning politics of representation and respectability within the realm of popular culture, pornography studies, and other highly consumed forms of media. The discussion also points toward themes of intramural policing, and other forms of o…
Beauty marks: The Latinx surfaces of loving, becoming, and mourning
There are few conceptual frameworks for tarrying with racialized gendered Latinx surface beyond analyses of representation. One entry point could be the beauty mark, the made-up face, and objects/materials such as glitter, nails, and rolos (hair rollers) – those surfaces and things that bind me in memory to my grandmother, and, by extension, to other women in my family as well. This text enacts a performative and theoretical exploration of the on…
Carnal teachings: Raunch aesthetics as queer feminist pedagogies in Yo! Majesty's hip hop practice
This essay puts forward a notion of “raunch aesthetics,” theorizing raunch as an aesthetic, performative, and vernacular practice: an explicit mode of sexual expression that transgresses norms of privacy and respectability. Raunch aesthetics describe creative practices that often blend humor and sexual explicitness to launch cultural critiques, generate pleasure for minority audiences, and affirm queer lives. The author activates her formulation …
Sexual knowledge and practiced feminisms: On moral panic, black girlhoods, and hip hop: Carney et al.
Disruptions in Respectability: A Roundtable Discussion
What do the politics of representation present in the realm of knowledge production? This roundtable of scholars of gender, sexuality, Black, and Latino studies circle the discussion around this question by positioning politics of representation and respectability within the realm of popular culture, pornography studies, and other highly consumed forms of media. The discussion also points toward themes of intramural policing, and other forms of o…
The Ambivalent Grotesque: Reading Black Women’s Erotic Corporeality in Wangechi Mutu’s Work
Internationally renowned contemporary artist Wangechi Mutu is known for her collages that craft sexual and grotesque women's bodies by combining images of models from high fashion magazines, racialized pornography, and ethnographic photographs of African villagers. The discussion of gender in relation to Mutu's practice has been overwhelmingly framed through issues of sexual violence, exploitation, and trauma suffered by black women. Mutu's descr…
Beauty marks: The Latinx surfaces of loving, becoming, and mourning
There are few conceptual frameworks for tarrying with racialized gendered Latinx surface beyond analyses of representation. One entry point could be the beauty mark, the made-up face, and objects/materials such as glitter, nails, and rolos (hair rollers) – those surfaces and things that bind me in memory to my grandmother, and, by extension, to other women in my family as well. This text enacts a performative and theoretical exploration of the on…
Queer of Color Space-Making in and beyond the Academic Industrial Complex
Paola Bacchetta, Fatima El-Tayeb, Jin Haritaworn, Jillian Hernandez, SA Smythe, Vanessa E. Thompson, Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, Queer of Color Space-Making in and beyond the Academic Industrial Complex, Critical Ethnic Studies, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Spring 2018), pp. 44-63
Fugitive State
This essay engages the activism of Oluwatoyin “Toyin” Salau, along with Black feminist cultural productions such as the 2019 song “Almeda” by Solange and Melina Matsoukas’s 2019 film Queen and Slim, to offer a cimarrona approach for practicing Florida study. The cimarrona is a rebellious being who can lead us to apply a radical lens for understanding life, freedom struggles, and death in Florida—one that underscores the refusal of Blackness, whic…
Beautifully Incomplete, Abject Objects: Studies of Racialized Gender, Desire, and the Power of the Aesthetic
Beautifully Incomplete, Abject Objects: Studies of Racialized Gender, Desire, and the Power of the Aesthetic Jillian Hernandez (bio) Abject Performances: Aesthetic Strategies in Latino Cultural Production. By Leticia Alvarado. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. 232 pages. $99.95 (cloth). $25.95 (paper). Ornamentalism. By Anne Anlin Cheng. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 224 pages. $31.95 (cloth). Ricanness: Enduring Time in Anticol…
You and me against the world: Black femmehood and citizenship in Kenya (Robinson)'s Patriot Games (2021)
Full Sets Demand Full Lives: Manicured Hands and Nails in Contemporary Art
This article interprets and contextualizes manicured hands and nails in works by visual and popular culture artists Pamela Council, Tidawhitney Lek, Leikeli 47, Yvette Mayorga, Kendra Stepp-Davis, and collaborators Bebe and Summer Houston. By focusing on hands, fingers, and nails, these artists respond to the physical vulnerability of people of color in the United States and the commodification of racialized feminine aesthetics. In so doing, they…
Sociology (8 works) · Art (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (4 works) · Queer (3 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)