Tanya Ann Kennedy is Associate Professor of Humanities at the University of Maine at Farmington and the author of "Keeping Up Her Geography": Women's Writing and Geocultural Space in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture.

"This book makes a welcome contribution to both feminist media studies and critical race studies by addressing a crucial and often overlooked discursive intersection of contemporary cultural life, where postfeminism meets postracial discourse. The scholarship is conceptually sophisticated, critically informed, and intellectually robust." — Hannah Hamad, author of Postfeminism and Paternity in Contemporary U.S. Film: Framing Fatherhood

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Framing the Past: The Help and Mad Men as Posthistory2. Of Girls and Men: Working the Historical Capital of Racist Patriarchy3. "Plastic Woman": The New Gender Essentialism4. Do You See What I See?: Postfeminism and Colorblind DiversityConclusion: Juneteenth 2015NotesWorks CitedIndex

Tanya Ann Kennedy is Associate Professor of Humanities at the University of Maine at Farmington and the author of "Keeping Up Her Geography": Women's Writing and Geocultural Space in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture.

"This book makes a welcome contribution to both feminist media studies and critical race studies by addressing a crucial and often overlooked discursive intersection of contemporary cultural life, where postfeminism meets postracial discourse. The scholarship is conceptually sophisticated, critically informed, and intellectually robust." — Hannah Hamad, author of Postfeminism and Paternity in Contemporary U.S. Film: Framing Fatherhood

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Framing the Past: The Help and Mad Men as Posthistory2. Of Girls and Men: Working the Historical Capital of Racist Patriarchy3. "Plastic Woman": The New Gender Essentialism4. Do You See What I See?: Postfeminism and Colorblind DiversityConclusion: Juneteenth 2015NotesWorks CitedIndex

Tanya Ann Kennedy is Associate Professor of Humanities at the University of Maine at Farmington and the author of "Keeping Up Her Geography": Women's Writing and Geocultural Space in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture.

"This book makes a welcome contribution to both feminist media studies and critical race studies by addressing a crucial and often overlooked discursive intersection of contemporary cultural life, where postfeminism meets postracial discourse. The scholarship is conceptually sophisticated, critically informed, and intellectually robust." — Hannah Hamad, author of Postfeminism and Paternity in Contemporary U.S. Film: Framing Fatherhood

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Framing the Past: The Help and Mad Men as Posthistory2. Of Girls and Men: Working the Historical Capital of Racist Patriarchy3. "Plastic Woman": The New Gender Essentialism4. Do You See What I See?: Postfeminism and Colorblind DiversityConclusion: Juneteenth 2015NotesWorks CitedIndex