Talking Through Race
Two Raced Women’s Tinder Stories
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12918458 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jin Lee (0000-0002-5698-5561, Curtin University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 454-470 |
| Publication date | 2021-05-09 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Communication Culture and Critique (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1753-9137 • E-ISSN: 1753-9129 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ccc/tcab030 |
| OpenAlex | W3172450306 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 27 |
While as an epitome of contemporary pairing culture Tinder has been reported as dangerous for its association with sex-centered post-feminist culture, including hook ups and toxic masculinity, an original case study exploring women of color (WOC) in the culture has not been undertaken yet. By inviting WOC Tinder users into an ethnographic study, I show the instability of race that mediates their lived experiences in line with gender in the culture of sexual intimacy. I focus on two female study participants living in the United States: Greek–Black biracial Betty and Korean-Asian Rose. By examining their processes of revisiting their Tinder episodes and developing their conclusive stories vis-à-vis their identities, I argue that they perform their race processed through ongoing negotiation with the social systems and their personal lived experiences, to respond to racialization, gendering, and sexualization in the pairing culture, mediated by the image-centered dating app, Tinder
Ethnography · Masculinity · Race (biology · Racialization · Sociology · White (mutation · Anthropology · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Media, Gender, and Advertising · Psychology · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology · Gender Studies
Postracial Resistance
White Lives
The Hypersexuality of Race
American Anatomies
For White Girls Only?
Dressing up Tinderella
Racial Formation in the United States
Black Sexual Politics
Asian Mail-Order Brides, the Threat of Global Capitalism, and the Rescue of the U.S. Nation-State
Mediated intimacy
From “can-do” girls to insecure and angry
Beyond “filling in the gap”
Third-Wave Feminism
The talk of women friends
Reacting to Reality Television
Empowered
Introduction
Racial Imperatives
A Critique of Postcolonial Reason
Meaning and Identity in 'Cyberspace
Looking Behind the Stereotypes of the 'Angry Black Woman
Interviewing Women Again
The Making of Class and Gender through Visualizing Moral Subject Formation
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |