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Participant observation during a 1994 cross-country (New York City to San Francisco, CA) adventure travel tour on the bus, The Green Tortoise, during which a documentary film was made, is drawn on examine the relationship between the self & various forms of visual media in contemporary culture. Reflections are also offered on the nature & power of "simulations" in a way different from Jean Beaudrillard's (1988) analysis of the US landscape. The role of the researcher & documentary filmmaker as "voyeur" is explored, along with the process of restructuring the voyeuristic gaze during the project. Ways that the author's "scientific gaze" was transformed during the journey are described, together with differences between the various "gazes" of the filmmakers & the author-as-researcher & their impacts on the other passengers. Particular emphasis is on the manner by which passengers' self-presentations were influenced by the presence of the cameras & how these "simulated" presentations differed from their "normal" ones. The interaction of processes of reactivity, negotiation, & performativity in the representation of self, & how these are impacted under the "gaze" of the camera, are discussed. 32 References. K. Hyatt Stewart

Explores the complex ways in which black female identites have evolved in the UK, drawing on data from the life histories of 4 women. These women's narratives diverge in many important ways; they appear to be in a continual process of redefinition based on the changing nature of their cultural hybridity. However, the women's experiences of Otherness are similar, indicating that beneath their diversity exists a common thread connected to their diasporic experiences & subordinate status. The women were typicaly interested both in describing the complexity of their own experience & in assuming the identity of blackness as a position from which to articulate their social experiences. It is suggested that theorists of black female identity would do well to focus on individual & group action in particular arenas of struggle so as to keep sight of both the diversity & the similarities in the black diasporic experience. 23 References. D. Ryfe