Black Women's Bodies and the Nation: Race, Gender and Culture

ISBN-13: 9781137355270 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 190 str.

Shirley Tate

Opis

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 and 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' (Truillot, 2003). Enslavement, colonialism and settlement in the metropole created the Black woman's body as both other/same and 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 at the same time as 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. This dismantling of body norms reveals other modes of being through disalienation's (Cesaire, 2000) refusal of the racial epidermal schema (Fanon, 1967).

Recenzje

"Black Women's Bodies and the Nation: Race, Gender and Culture proposes a new analytical approach to the study of black women's representation. ... Tate provides an important theoretical contribution for social scientists. ... Her work is of interest to any interdisciplinary scholar interested in the body, intersectionality, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, media and popular culture, or identity. " (Niamba Baskerville, Ethnic and Racial Studies, February, 2016)

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Looking at the Sable-Saffron Venus: Iconography, Affect and (Post)Colonial Hygiene 2. Batty Politics: Desire and Rear Excess 3. When Black Fat does not Signify Mammy: Humour and Sexualization 4. Fascination: Muscle, Femininity, Iconicity 5. Pleasure Politics: The Cult of Celebrity, Mullaticity and Slimness 6. Skin Lightening: Contempt, Fear, Hatred 7. Coda- Decolonization and Seeing Through Black Women's Bodies

O autorze

Shirley Anne Tate is Associate Professor in Race and Culture and Director of the Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies at the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds, UK and Visiting Professor in The Institute for Reconciliation and Social Justice at the University of the Free State, South Africa.