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Jacqueline Bobo's Black Women as Cultural Readers provides a much-needed examination of the unique positions African American women occupy as consumers of literature and film about black women's experiences. Following in the tradition of Janice Radway's Reading the Romance, but inflecting her own reader response approach with the history of African American women's engagement with and resistance to cultural products, Bobo focuses on "the emergence of an influential group of black women cultural consumers" (2) who have been critical to the success of three works by black women: Waiting to Exhale by Terry McMillan, The Color Purple by Alice Walker, and Daughters of the Dust by Julie Dash. Bobo documents the complex processes of reception whose workings she has observed among mainstream critics, among groups of black women she encounters at readings and screenings, and among members of focus groups organized by Bobo specifically to address these texts.