Black beauty : aesthetics, stylization, politics / / Shirley Anne Tate

• Autore: Tate Shirley Anne
• 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
• 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: 1-4094-9159-5; 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.: 9910782815403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II