For those interested in these Miranda arguments as they relate to commodity /get-with-the fetishism, other key references in Cook, Crang & Thorpe (2004) include Enloe (1989)and Roberts (1993).
There's a scene from the 1943 Busby Berkeley film, The Gang's All Here in which she performs 'The lady in the tutti frutti hat' that's central to that argument. Can't embed this on blogger, so go here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8lEaLxJwqg
Ian
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By the way, the description's of Miranda's knowing play with her own fetishization is very reminiscent of arguments concerning Josephine Baker and her famous "primitive" and "erotic" banana dance... so this has been going on for a long time! This seems to relate back to Ian's reading of the bell hooks "Eating the Other" essay, because not only was food used as a metaphor for "spicing up" the dull dish of whiteness, but she refers specifically to white male college students' sexual interest in non-white women. And this reminds me of the importance of paying attention to bodies and embodied performances whenever ethnographers or geographers set off to follow food. It's not just what we put in our bodies that matters, or the labor of the bodies that produce it that matters, but also the relation between various bodies within racialized, gendered, sexual orders of biopolitical maneuver and governmentalized control.
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