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.