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You're Wearing the Orange Shorts? African American Hooters Girls and the All American Girl Next Door

Hooters restaurants are typically staffed by Caucasian women that resemble the company’s idea of an “All American Girl, Surfer Girl, Girl Next Door” image, promoted in employee training materials. However, my experience working for this company has been in a predominantly African American-staffed Hooters, atypical for the corporation. Through a mixed methods approach encompassing content analysis, participant observation, autoethnography, and interviews, this research seeks to understand the ideal Hooters Girl image promoted by the corporation, and the performance of that ideal in an atypical Hooters location.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:GEORGIA/oai:digitalarchive.gsu.edu:wsi_theses-1021
Date26 April 2011
CreatorsCook, Rachel E
PublisherDigital Archive @ GSU
Source SetsGeorgia State University
Detected LanguageEnglish
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SourceWomen's Studies Theses

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