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The Governmentality of Black Beauty Shame

Discourse, Iconicity and Resistance

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Authors:
  1. Shirley Anne Tate

    1. Carnegie School of Education, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, United Kingdom

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: Developing a Black Decolonial Feminist Approach to Black Beauty Shame

    • Shirley Anne Tate
    Pages 1-17
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  3. The Governmentality of Silence and Silencing and Black Beauty Shame

    • Shirley Anne Tate
    Pages 19-30
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  4. Reading Black Beauty Shame in Talk: An Ethnomethodologically Inclined Discourse Analysis

    • Shirley Anne Tate
    Pages 31-47
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  5. Black Beauty Shame: Intensification, Skin Ego and Biopolitical Silencing

    • Shirley Anne Tate
    Pages 49-64
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  6. White Iconicity: Necropolitics, Disalienation and Black Beauty Shame Scripts

    • Shirley Anne Tate
    Pages 65-84
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  7. The Shame of ‘Mixedness’: Black Exclusion and Dis/alienation

    • Shirley Anne Tate
    Pages 85-116
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  8. Conclusion: Post-Racial Black Beauty Shame’s Alter/Native Futures: The Counter-Conduct of ‘Race’ Performativity

    • Shirley Anne Tate
    Pages 117-134
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  9. Back Matter

    Pages 135-141
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About this book

This book uses the experiences and conversations of Black British women as a lens to examine the impact of discourses surrounding Black beauty shame. Black beauty shame exists within racialized societies which situate white beauty as iconic, and as a result produce Black ‘ugliness’ as a counterpoint. At the same time, Black Nationalist discourses present Black-white ‘mixed race’ women as bodies out of place within the Black community. In the examples analysed within the book, women disidentify from both the iconicities of white beauty and the discourses of Black Nationalist darker-skinned beauty, negating both ideals. This demonstration of Foucaldian counter-conduct can be read as a form of disalienation from the governmentality of Black beauty shame. This fascinating volume will be of interest to students and scholars of Black identity, Black beauty and discourse analysis.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Carnegie School of Education, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, United Kingdom

    Shirley Anne Tate

About the author

Shirley  Anne Tate is Professor of Race and Education in the Carnegie School of Education, Leeds Beckett University, UK.  She is also a Visiting Professor and Research Fellow at the Institute for Reconciliation and Social Justice, South Africa, with links to many other institutions worldwide. Her research interests centre around Black beauty, identity, performativity and Black diaspora politics.

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