Black women's bodies and the nation : race, gender and culture

Black women's bodies and the nation race, gender and culture

"Black Women's Bodies and The Nation develops a decolonial approach to representations of black women's bodies within popular culture in the US, UK and the Caribbean. It focuses on the racialization and affective load of muscle, bone, fat and skin through the trope of the subaltern fi...

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1. Verfasser: Tate, Shirley Anne (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan 2015
Schriftenreihe:Genders and sexualities in the social sciences
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Women, Black > Human body > Social aspects > Women, Black, in popular culture > Human body in popular culture > Race awareness > Race relations > Beauty, Personal > Body image in women > Frau > Schwarze
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Zusammenfassung:"Black Women's Bodies and The Nation develops a decolonial approach to representations of black women's bodies within popular culture in the US, UK and the Caribbean. It focuses on the racialization and affective load of muscle, bone, fat and skin through the trope of the subaltern figure of the Sable-Saffron Venus as an 'alter/native.' The author argues that enslavement, colonialism and settlement in the metropole created the black woman's body as both other/same and as deeply affective, whether read as fear, disgust, contempt or fascination. Her body draws attention to the negotiations through which the semblance of consensus on the citizen body is created. Yet, at the same time, black women's bodies as Sable-Saffron Venus alter/natives rupture the collective body formed through the (re)iteration, (re)interpretation and (re)presentation of the meanings of muscle, bone, fat and skin."--Page 4 of cover
Introduction--iconicity : black British women's bodies as (in)visible spectacles -- Looking at the Sable-Saffron Venus : iconography, affect and (post)colonial hygiene -- Batty politics : desire and rear excess -- When black fat does not signify Mammy : disparagement humour and sexualization -- Fascination : muscle, femininity, iconicity -- Pleasure politics : the cult of celebrity, mullatticity and slimness -- Skin lightening : contempt, hatred, fear -- Coda--decolonization and seeing through black women's bodies
Beschreibung:IX, 190 S.
Ill.
23 cm
ISBN:9781137355270
978-1-137-35527-0