{"title":"Colorblind Melodrama: Tyler Perry's For Colored Girls and the Absorption of Black Feminism","authors":"A. Reed","doi":"10.1353/fro.2022.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fro.2022.0007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Ntozake Shange's for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf (1975) has become a site of struggle over the reading and redefinition of racism since its original performance and publication in the 1970s. This article situates Tyler Perry's adaptation of this Black feminist classic within neoliberal multiculturalism's circuits of value. While Shange's pairing of two competing registers—the hopelessness of suicide and hopefulness of the rainbow—underlines the text's complex theorization of collective witnessing, Perry's For Colored Girls (2010) reduces the rainbow to an empty multicultural symbol. Perry's controversial cinematic adaptation can be understood as part of the neoliberal incorporation and sanitization of Black feminism. The film's new narrative arc seemingly offers a righteous critique of the politics of respectability, but does so in order to discipline normatively successful Black women, and overall largely abandons Shange's vision. Turning up the original's drama and watering down its social impact, Perry's Hollywoodization of Shange's choreopoem capitalizes on the injury, not agency, of Black women, while decontextualizing traumas from the structural conditions that perpetuate them. Moreover, Perry's rainbow expels queerness from its vision of solidarity and cohesiveness. The film indicates a broader cultural investment in centering diverse bodies while emptying out the Black radical epistemologies such representations make possible. The absorption of Black feminism is enabled by \"colorblind melodrama,\" or the aesthetics of an official antiracism that offers up narratives of normative exceptionality and spectacularized disposability in order to reaffirm the differential valuation of human life under neoliberal multiculturalism.","PeriodicalId":46007,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers-A Journal of Women Studies","volume":"43 1","pages":"151 - 184"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47197417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Performing the State's Desire: The Border Industrial Complex and the Murder of Anastasio Hernández Rojas","authors":"C. J. Pérez","doi":"10.1353/fro.2022.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fro.2022.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper considers the 2010 murder of Anastasio Hernández Rojas at the hands of Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in order to unsettle the dominant narrative that migrant desire is responsible for the state violence against undocumented migrants at the border. Instead, I argue that we might read encounters between the state and migrants as performances in which the state and its agents reveal their own desires to enact the force of the border industrial complex, the increasingly privatized and militarized policing behemoth that targets racialized migrant threats for violence while increasing profits for US-owned corporations. This paper examines the state's performance of violence in three scenes—Hernández Rojas's detection in the desert, his processing at the detention center, and his brutal beating at the scene of deportation. In each scene, agents perform the state's entangled desires: the desire for and construction of a threatening enemy and the desire for total domination of this enemy at the border.","PeriodicalId":46007,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers-A Journal of Women Studies","volume":"43 1","pages":"119 - 93"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43201088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editors' Note","authors":"W. Pillow, Kimberly M. Jew, Darius Bost","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv28m3hd6.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv28m3hd6.6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46007,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers-A Journal of Women Studies","volume":"43 1","pages":"ix - xi"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42368459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"If It Was So Bad, Why Did You Stay?","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/fro.2022.0049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fro.2022.0049","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46007,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers-A Journal of Women Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66397791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Survivor Anthems","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/fro.2022.0035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fro.2022.0035","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46007,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers-A Journal of Women Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66398052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"sight/sightings","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/fro.2022.0039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fro.2022.0039","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46007,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers-A Journal of Women Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66398132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Getting Out and Living After","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/fro.2022.0041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fro.2022.0041","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46007,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers-A Journal of Women Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66398203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction: A Message to Those Experiencing Violence","authors":"Bethany, Jacqui, Lourdes, Taniya, Wanda","doi":"10.1353/fro.2022.0032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fro.2022.0032","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46007,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers-A Journal of Women Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66397991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Violence: This Narrative is Not Consent","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/fro.2022.0045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fro.2022.0045","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46007,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers-A Journal of Women Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66398225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fear—Part I","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/fro.2022.0043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fro.2022.0043","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46007,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers-A Journal of Women Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66398215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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