Cover of Aesthetics of Excess: The Art and Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment, with a person in a tube top wearing multiple, large gold necklaces

Aesthetics of Excess

The Art and Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment

by Jillian Hernandez

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2020

Services: Indexing

Jillian Hernandez wearing black glasses and resting her chin on her hand, which has colorful nail polish with designs

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Listen to Cathy Hannabach’s interview with Jillian about Aesthetics of Excess on the Imagine Otherwise podcast.

The episode and Aesthetics of Excess​ make great additions to syllabi in Latinx studies, Black studies, media studies, and gender studies.

The episode show notes contain a teaching guide with related books, podcast episodes, and resources.

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