Policing the Beat: Hip Hop Bodies on Lockdown
Jiel Latimer, 2009

This 25-minute documentary short, by Jiel Latimer, explores black women's hyersexual representations in hip-hop music and argues that their hyper-visible bodies, which emerged during the corporate media takeover of this black working-class cultural expression, are linked to criminality and the increased presence of African American women in the U.S. prison system. Jiel Latimer completed her M.A. in Women's Studies in Spring 2009. Final Project Committee: Janell Hobson (Chair) and Vivien Ng.

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Sex on the Beach: Tourism in Contemporary Advertisements
Sylvia E. Perez, 2007

This 20-minute documentary short, by Sylvia E. Perez, examines tourism postcards from Brazil and the Dominican Republic. Drawing on historical narratives of slavery and colonial conquest in Latin America and the Caribbean, Perez argues that sexual representations of Latina women in contemporary ads, which fuel sex tourism and sex trafficking, have their roots in this troubled history. Sylvia Perez completed her M.A. in Women's Studies in Fall 2007. Final Project Committee: Janell Hobson (Chair) and Patricia Pinho.

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Middle Passages: Gendered Diasporas
Interactive Digital Map Project (Visit Site)

Created in the seminar "Black Diasporas, Feminisms, and Sexual Politics" during the Spring 2009 semester, this educational and interactive, multimedia site is dedicated to decolonizing our worldviews as we map black women's lives and narrate transnational and transhistorical stories of how they cross borders, exchange cultures, and forge diasporic identities. Using diverse media, including Google Maps, video, audio, images, and text, history is linked to the present day by focusing on "gendering" the history of the Middle Passage, highlighting women's stories, and connecting this past with contemporary examples of migration, trafficking, and cultural flows.

transcending silence...
Women's Studies Undergraduate E-Journal (Visit Site)

Premiering in Spring 2004 and supported by an Innovations in Teaching grant, this electronic journal is the final outcome of students' editorial work in the course, "Electronic Publishing in Women's Studies" (co-taught each year by Professors Janell Hobson and Vivien Ng). transcending silence... is the longest-running electronic journal on the web, with interactive, multimedia features and a multidisciplinary focus of undergraduate critical and creative work from feminist perspectives.