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Autore: | Tate Shirley Anne |
Titolo: | Black beauty : aesthetics, stylization, politics / / Shirley Anne Tate |
Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (189 p.) |
Disciplina: | 305.488969729 |
Soggetto topico: | Beauty, Personal - Caribbean, English-speaking |
Women, Black - Race identity - Caribbean, English-speaking | |
Self-perception in women - Caribbean, English-speaking | |
Women, Black - Caribbean, English-speaking - Psychology | |
Women, Black - Caribbean, English-speaking - Ethnic identity | |
Soggetto geografico: | Caribbean, English-speaking Social conditions |
Caribbean, English-speaking Race relations | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | "First published 2009 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 'Beauty Comes From Within': Or Does It?; 2 Anti-Racist Aesthetics in the 21st Century: The Matter of Hair; 3 'Race', Beauty and Melancholia: Shade; 4 The Shame of Beauty is its Transformative Potential; 5 'The Browning', Straighteners, and Fake Tan; 6 Hybrid Black Beauty?; 7 Conclusion: Is it all Stylization and Is There a Need for Black Beauty Citizenship?; Appendix: Transcription Conventions; Bibliography; Index |
Sommario/riassunto: | Combining rich ethnographic research amongst Black British women of Caribbean heritage, with a discussion of the broader 'Black Atlantic' context, Shirley Tate offers a unique exploration of beauty, race and identity politics, revealing how Black women themselves speak about, negotiate, inhabit, work on and perform Black beauty. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Black beauty |
ISBN: | 1-317-17401-1 |
1-315-56944-2 | |
1-317-17400-3 | |
1-282-05418-X | |
9786612054181 | |
0-7546-9140-3 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910454090203321 |
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