The Governmentality of Black Beauty Shame Discourse, Iconicity and Resistance /

• Main Author: Tate, Shirley Anne (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Discourse analysis.; Sociology.; Human body-Social aspects.; Culture-Study and teaching.; Sociolinguistics.; Ethnicity.; Discourse Analysis.; Gender Studies.; Sociology of the Body.; Cultural and Media Studies, general.; Ethnicity Studies.

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 co...