Review of "The Aesthetics of Excess: The Art and Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment" by Jillian Hernandez (Duke University Press)

Abstract

"The Aesthetics of Excess" by Jillian Hernandez is a dazzling and provocative book that deploys the aesthetic as a category to grasp with great care the lives and representations of Black and Latina women whose performance of gender exceeds the white middle class norms of feminine comportment.

Keywords

• performance
• aesthetics
• popular
• latina
• black women
• excess