Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race in Transnational Indonesia 9780824837877

In Indonesia, light skin color has been desirable throughout recorded history. Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race explores Indo

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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race in Transnational Indonesia
CHAPTER 1. Rasa, Race, and Ramayana: Sensing and Censoring the History of Color in Precolonial Java
CHAPTER 2. Rooting and Routing Whiteness in Colonial Indonesia: From Dutch to Japanese Whiteness
CHAPTER 3. Indonesian White Beauty: Spatializing Race and Racializing Spatial Tropes
CHAPTER 4. Cosmopolitan Whiteness: The Effects and Affects of Skin- Whitening Advertisements in a Transnational Women’s Magazine
CHAPTER 5. Malu: Coloring Shame and Shaming the Color of Beauty
Conclusion. Shades of Emotions in a Transnational Context
Notes
References
Index
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