Hunter, M. (2011). Shake It, Baby, Shake It: Consumption and the New Gender Order in Hip-Hop.
In "That's the Joint! The Hip-Hop Studies Reader" (2nd ed., Neal & Forman, Eds.).
→ Analyzes the visual centrality of the buttocks in hip-hop music videos as a commodity and site of racialized, gendered performance.
Emerson, R. A. (2002). "Where My Girls At?": Negotiating Black Womanhood in Music Videos.
Gender & Society, 16(1), 115–135.
→ Discusses the "booty video" genre and how Black female artists navigate objectification vs. empowerment.
Sharpe, C. (2015). Big Black Beauty: Gluteal Aesthetics in Contemporary Media.
In "The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography" (Duke UP).
→ Examines the hypervisibility of large buttocks in mainstream film and pornography as a site of racial fantasy and pleasure. list of big ass porn stars
Mendible, M. (2007). Embodying Latinidad: From Fatness to Big Asses in Jennifer Lopez and Shakira.
In "From Bananas to Buttocks: The Latina Body in Popular Film and Culture" (Mendible, Ed., U of Texas Press).
→ Traces how the "big butt" became a marker of Latinx identity and marketable exoticism in Hollywood.
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Hobson, J. (2018). "The Thickening" – It directly addresses the social media economy of big ass entertainment content with intersectional rigor. Emerson, R
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