On Chonga Girls and Sexual-Aesthetic Excess

Chonga Girls
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Chonga Girls
The article "Miss, You Look like a Bratz Doll": On Chonga Girls and Sexual-Aesthetic Excess" by Jillian Hernandez examines the meanings linked to the chonga identity and how visual depictions of chonga bodies generate and reflect discourses about Latina girls' sexuality. Chonga girls are typically stereotyped, particularly among the Latinos of South Florida, as low-class, slutty, tough, and coarse young women. Among the broader white society, chonga girls are typically viewed as disorderly subjects who are emotionally and sexually excessive given their disproportionately ethnic, cheap, sexy, loud, and young dressing. To derive more comprehensive meanings associated with the chonga identity, the author conducted a survey study in South Florida where she discovered that the detrimental quality of the word arises from its disparaging and exclusionary function.
The chonga identit...