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Skin Bleaching in Black Atlantic Zones
S. Tate
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Description for Skin Bleaching in Black Atlantic Zones
hardcover. Num Pages: 144 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFF; JFSJ; JFSL; JHB; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 337.
This book's discussion of skin bleaching, lightening and toning in Black Atlantic zones disengages with the usual tropes of Black Nationalism and global white supremacy such as 'the desire to be white', 'low self-esteem' and 'self-hatred' and instead engages with the global multi-billion dollar market in lighter skins with products from local cosmetic and pharmaceutical companies and entrepreneurs. This practice can be for short-term strategic purposes and the production of bleached lightness and new subjectivities through skin shades across Black Atlantic zones - the UK, USA, Caribbean, Latin America and the Africa continent- is also a simultaneous critique of continuing ... Read more
This book's discussion of skin bleaching, lightening and toning in Black Atlantic zones disengages with the usual tropes of Black Nationalism and global white supremacy such as 'the desire to be white', 'low self-esteem' and 'self-hatred' and instead engages with the global multi-billion dollar market in lighter skins with products from local cosmetic and pharmaceutical companies and entrepreneurs. This practice can be for short-term strategic purposes and the production of bleached lightness and new subjectivities through skin shades across Black Atlantic zones - the UK, USA, Caribbean, Latin America and the Africa continent- is also a simultaneous critique of continuing ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
Number of Pages
136
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137498441
SKU
V9781137498441
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Ref
99-15
About S. Tate
Shirley Anne Tate is Associate Professor in Race and Culture and Director of the Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies at the University of Leeds, UK and Visiting Professor and Research Fellow in the Institute for Reconciliation and Social Justice, University of the Free State, South Africa.
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