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Framing Blackness and Mixedness

Chapter 2 focuses on mass-market newspaper and magazine depictions of actresses Jennifer Beals and Halle Berry in the United States and Camila Pitanga in Brazil. The chapter begins by laying out the national policy debates such as census racial categories and affirmative action in the 1990s and 2000s in order to relate how the media framing of these celebrities engages with changing ideas of race while at the same time furthering feminized racial commodification. Examining how these actresses negotiate and position themselves in relation to racial categories and racial discourses, the chapter explores how mixed black female celebrities serve as lightning rods for discussions of race, gender, and sexuality.