Black Women's Bodies and The Nation: Race, Gender and Culture (Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences)
Shirley Anne Tate
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Description for Black Women's Bodies and The Nation: Race, Gender and Culture (Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences)
Hardcover. 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'. Series: Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences. Num Pages: 208 pages, 4. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 368.
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'.
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'.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences
Number of Pages
190
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137355270
SKU
V9781137355270
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Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Shirley Anne Tate
Shirley Anne Tate is Associate Professor in Race and Culture and Director of the Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies at the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds, UK and Visiting Professor in The Institute for Reconciliation and Social Justice at the University of the Free State, South Africa.
Reviews for Black Women's Bodies and The Nation: Race, Gender and Culture (Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences)
“Black Women’s Bodies and the Nation: Race, Gender and Culture proposes a new analytical approach to the study of black women’s representation. … Tate provides an important theoretical contribution for social scientists. … Her work is of interest to any interdisciplinary scholar interested in the body, intersectionality, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, media and popular culture, or identity. ” ... Read more