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Author Tate, Shirley Anne, author.

Title Black beauty : aesthetics, stylization, politics / Shirley Anne Tate
Published Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (180 pages)
Contents Introduction -- 'Beauty comes from within': or does it? -- Anti-racist aesthetics in the 21st century: the matter of hair -- 'Race', beauty and melancholia: shade -- The shame of beauty is its transformative potential -- 'The browning', straighteners, and fake tan -- Hybrid black beauty? -- Conclusion: is it all stylization and is there a need for black beauty citizenship?
Summary Combining rich ethnographic research amongst Black British women of Caribbean heritage, with a discussion of the broader 'Black Atlantic' context, Shirley Tate offers a unique exploration of beauty, race and identity politics, revealing how Black women themselves speak about, negotiate, inhabit, work on and perform Black beauty
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-171) and index
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Subject Women, Black -- Caribbean, English-speaking -- Ethnic identity
Women, Black -- Caribbean, English-speaking -- Psychology
Women, Black -- Race identity -- Caribbean, English-speaking
Beauty, Personal -- Caribbean, English-speaking
Self-perception in women -- Caribbean, English-speaking
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
Beauty, Personal
Race relations
Self-perception in women
Social conditions
Women, Black -- Psychology
SUBJECT Caribbean, English-speaking -- Social conditions
Caribbean, English-speaking -- Race relations
Subject English-speaking Caribbean Area
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780754691402
0754691403
9780754671459
0754671453
128205418X
9781282054189