Skin Bleaching in Black Atlantic Zones

Shade Shifters

S. Tate (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

136 Seiten

2015 | 1st ed. 2016
Palgrave Pivot (Verlag)
978-1-137-49844-1 (ISBN)

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This book's discussion of skin bleaching, lightening and toning in Black Atlantic zones disengages with the usual tropes of Black Nationalism and global white supremacy such as 'the desire to be white', 'low self-esteem' and 'self-hatred' and instead engages with the global multi-billion dollar market in lighter skins with products from local cosmetic and pharmaceutical companies and entrepreneurs. This practice can be for short-term strategic purposes and the production of bleached lightness and new subjectivities through skin shades across Black Atlantic zones - the UK, USA, Caribbean, Latin America and the Africa continent- is also a simultaneous critique of continuing pigmentocracy and darker skin disadvantage. This book seeks to decolonize skin bleaching, lightening and toning by exploring its racialized gender political and libidinal economies in the Black Atlantic. In so doing it moves past the notion that global white supremacy dynamizes the practice to a position where the interaction of colourism and 'post-race' neo-liberal racialization aesthetics becomes the focus.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	04.02.2016
Zusatzinfo	VIII, 136 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-137-49844-7 / 1137498447
ISBN-13	978-1-137-49844-1 / 9781137498441
Zustand	Neuware