Black women's bodies and the nation : race, gender and culture
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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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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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