Saraswati, L. Ayu,

Seeing beauty, sensing race in transnational Indonesia / L. Ayu Saraswati. - Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, c2013. - xi, 173 pages ; 24 cm. - Southeast Asia--politics, meaning, and memory . - Southeast Asia--politics, meaning, and memory. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages [143]-162) and index.

Introduction: seeing beauty, sensing race in transnational Indonesia -- Rasa, race, and Ramayana: sensing and censoring the history of color in precolonial Java -- Rooting and routing whiteness in colonial Indonesia: From Dutch to Japanese whiteness -- Indonesian white beauty: spatializing race and racializing spatial tropes -- Cosmopolitan whiteness: the effects and affects of skin-whitening advertisements in a transnational women's magazine -- Malu: coloring shame and shaming the color of beauty -- Conclusion: shades of emotions in a transnational context.

9780824836641 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780824837365 (pbk. : alk. paper)


Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)--Indonesia
Human skin color--Psychological aspects--Indonesia
Race awareness--Indonesia