In this accessible and yet challenging work, Shirley Anne Tate engages with race and gender intersectionality, connecting through to affect theory, to develop a Black decolonial feminist analysis of global anti-Blackness.
Through the focus on skin, Tate provides a groundwork of historical context and theoretical framing to engage more contemporary examples of racist constructions of Blackness and Black bodies. Examining the history of intersectionality including its present ‘post-intersectionality’, the book continues intersectionality’s racialized gender critique by developing a Black decolonial feminist approach to cultural readings of Black skin’s consumption, racism within ‘body beauty institutions’ (e.g. modelling, advertising, beauty pageants) and cultural representations, as well as the affects which keep anti-Blackness in play.
This book is suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate students in gender studies, sociology and media studies.
Author(s): Shirley Anne Tate
Series: Gender Insights
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 201
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Black skin affections: Black feminist decolonial reading into freedom
Introduction: Skin, flesh, body
The matter of skin
Reading Black skin affections
Book structure
Chapter 2: Feeling our way: Black skin’s affective politics and intersectionality
Introduction
Race and gender intersectionality on television
Race and gender trouble: the Black body
Intersectionality and Black feminist decolonial skin politics
Thinking skin through a Black feminist decolonial lens
Conclusion
Note
Chapter 3: Racialized fascination: Modelling and skin shade
Introduction
Fashions and racisms
Looking South at fashion and style
Whiteness is not the ideal everywhere: Black bodies in racial capitalism
‘The look’, modelling and global aesthetic labour
The look of racialized skin fascination, consumption and misogynoir
Devaluation of darker skin on women’s bodies but not men’s: Black male bodies, the urban and fashion as a racialized present
Reading Black male iconicity: Beckford and Itoje
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 4: White fear-hate of Black men’s bodies: Masculinity and skin’s affective politics
Introduction
Racialized libidinal economies, racialized assemblages and the samboification of society
White blackface
Black blackface and transracial consumption of Black men's bodies: Jumanji and Old Spice
Black whiteface in film and television: Passing and being passed in The Human Stain and Prison Break
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 5: Beauty pageants: The global politics of skin shade
Introduction
Coloniality and ‘misbehaviour’
The 21st-century decolonial break in Jamaica?
The break as a rupture in colonial aesthetics?
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 6: Conclusion: Intersectional skin still matters: thinking in Black
Introduction
Thinking and seeing in Black
Black skin politics beyond representation
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
