Sad Girls and Carefree Black Girls

Affect, Race, (Dis)Possession, and Protest

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4520641
AutoresHeather Mooney (0000-0002-4922-6719, autor correspondente)
Ano2018
Volume46
Fascículo3-4
Páginas175-194
Data de publicação2018-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoWomen's studies quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0732-1562 • E-ISSN: 1934-1520
EditoraProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/wsq.2018.0038
OpenAlexW2898413377
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas11
Referências citadas9

This paper examines the "Sad Girl" and "Carefree Black Girl" to theorize the role of affect and raced sociopolitical identity in digital spaces. In their selective visual representation, Sad Girls are often white and embody white narratives of history, erasing the Latina/x roots of Sad Girl identity formation. Simultaneously, the #CarefreeBlackGirl hashtag has become an alternative and prominent form of narrative identity, centralizing race, gender, and affect through selfies and other forms of art. Using theories of affect, race, and gender formation, this paper explores how affective positions sublimate, disrupt, and commodify forms of embodied representations. By putting white and Latina/x Sad Girls and Carefree Black Girls in dialogue, this paper explores how raced and gendered affect contours resistant identities online

Aesthetics · Art · Developmental psychology · Embodied cognition · Girl · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Sociology · Communication · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Music History and Culture · Psychology