Performing race in flavor of love and the bachelor

Critical Studies in Media Communication

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 373-392

  Dubrofsky, Rachel E ^a   Hardy, Antoine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blackness; Flavor of love; Performance; Reality TV; Surveillance; The bachelor; Whiteness

Indexed keywords

EID: 51349096637     PISSN: 15295036     EISSN: 14795809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15295030802327774     Document Type: Article

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