Jacqueline Bobo Explained

Jacqueline Bobo
Education:	University of California (BA) San Francisco State University (MA) University of Oregon (PhD)
Known For:	Black Women as Cultural Readers (1996)

Jacqueline Bobo is Chair and Associate Professor of Women's Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Bobo has been recognized as an "internationally renowned writer" and black feminist scholar.^[1]

Education

Bobo earned her undergraduate degree from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1971, her Masters in 1980 at San Francisco State University, and her PhD in film and television at the University of Oregon in 1989.^[2]

Career

Bobo has worked on studying the response of Black women for films such as Daughters of the Dust, The Color Purple, Gone with the Wind, Civil Brand, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Claudine. She interviewed a group of selected Black women and asked them how they felt about their portrayal in the 1985 film The Color Purple.^{[3] [4]} She has analyzed the language used in media representing Black women and how it has changed within the last century.^[5] Bobo's observations contextualize the historical aspects perceived in these media outlets. Bobo's work in Black Women as Cultural Readers is regarded as a "seminal stud[y] helping critics and other readers better understand large groups of women who have heretofore been made invisible in academia".

In Black Feminist Cultural Criticism, Bobo's essays explore multiple perspectives on black feminist cultural studies, both from an academic perspective and an everyday perspective. Bobo's writings have been compared to, written by bell hooks, as both works explore black feminist theory: "Each author contributes to a collective project of feminist canon formation and points toward the future of scholarship by and about black women."^[6]

Selected works

Articles

• Spring 1989. Sifting Through the Controversy: Reading The Color Purple. Callaloo. 39. 332–342. 10.2307/2931568. 2931568. Bobo. Jacqueline.
• Summer 1991. "The Subject is Money": Reconsidering the Black Film Audience as a Theoretical Paradigm. Black American Literature Forum. 50. 4. 421–432. 10.2307/3041699. 3041699. Bobo. Jacqueline.
• Fall 1991. "Black feminism and media criticism: "The Women of Brewster Place". Screen. 32. 3. 286–302. 10.1093/screen/32.3.286. Oxford University Press Journals. Bobo. J.. Seiter. E..
• March 2018. Civil Brand (2002) and the Prison Industrial Complex. Communication, Culture & Critique. 1. 1. 63–71. EBSCOhost Communication & Mass Media Complet.

Books

• Articulation and Hegemony: Black Women's Response to the Film The Color Purple. 1989. PhD. University of Oregon. 21321579.
• Book: Black Women as Cultural Readers. registration. Columbia University Press. 1995. 9780231083942. New York. ^{[7] [8] [9]}
• Book: Black Women Film and Video Artists. Routledge. 1998. 9780415920414. New York. ^{[10] [11]}
• Book: Black Feminist Cultural Criticism. Blackwell. 2001. 9780631222392. Maiden, Massachusetts. 44683443.

Notes and References

1. Book: Marshall, Carmen Rose. Black Professional Women in Recent American Fiction. 24 January 2015. 29. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. 9780786481224. 15 September 2015.
2. Web site: Jacqueline Bobo (faculty profile). Department of Feminist Studies. University of California Santa Barbara. February 21, 2020.
3. Bobo. Jacqueline. Spring 1989. Sifting Through the Controversy: Reading The Color Purple. Callaloo. 39. 332–342. 10.2307/2931568. 2931568.
4. Web site: 'The Color Purple' 25 years later: From controversy to classic. Penrice. Ronda Racha. 2010-12-17. TheGrio. en-US. 2020-02-20.
5. Book: Bobo, Jacqueline. Black Women as Cultural Readers. 1998. 91–97.
6. Summer 2005. Review: Black Feminist Cultural Criticism by Jacqueline Bobo: Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks: Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by bell hooks. Signs. 30. 4. 2265–2270. 10.1086/429809. Lamothe. Daphne. 15 September 2023.
7. Weissenberg. Clare. August 1996. none. Journal of American Studies. 30. 2. 318–320. 10.1017/S0021875800027389. 27556148. 145640331.
8. Pinson. Hermine. 1998. none. Signs. 23. 4. 1066–1068. 10.1086/495302. 3175204.
9. Pamaggiore. Maria. 1996. none. NWSA Journal. 8. 2. 130. 4316446.
10. Mask. Mia L.. 1998. none. Cinéaste. 24. 1. 91. 41689127.
11. Foster. Gwendolyn. 1999. none. Film Quarterly. 53. 1. 46–47. 10.2307/3697215. 3697215.