Black women's bodies and the nation : race, gender and culture
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Bibliographic Information
Black women's bodies and the nation : race, gender and culture
(Genders and sexualities in the social sciences)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 172-182) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Black Women's Bodies and the Nation develops a decolonial approach to representations of iconic 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- body'.
Table of Contents
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
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