Asians Wear Clothes on the Internet: Race, Gender, and the Work of Personal Style Blogging Pham Minh-Ha T.
Asians Wear Clothes on the Internet: Race, Gender, and the Work of Personal Style Blogging Pham Minh-Ha T. In the first ever book devoted to a critical investigation of the personal style…
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Asians Wear Clothes on the Internet: Race, Gender, and the Work of Personal Style Blogging Pham Minh-Ha T.
In the first ever book devoted to a critical investigation of the personal style blogosphere, Minh-Ha T. Pham understands their online activities as "taste work" practices that generate myriad forms of capital for superbloggers and the brands they feature. Pham examines the phenomenal rise of elite Asian bloggers who have made a career of posting photographs of themselves wearing clothes on the Internet.
Situating blogging within the historical context of gendered and racialized fashion work while being attentive to the broader cultural, technological, and A multifaceted and detailed analysis, Asians Wear Clothes on the Internet addresses questions concerning the status and meaning of "Asian taste" in the early twenty-first century, the kinds of cultural and economic work Asian tastes do, and the fashion public and industry's appetite for certain kinds of racialized eliteness.