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...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Developing a Black decolonial feminist approach to Black beauty shame
• Chapter 2. The governmentality of silence and silencing and Black beauty shame
• Chapter 3. Reading Black beauty shame in talk: An ethnomethodologically inclined discourse analysis
• Chapter 4. Black beauty shame: Intensification, skin ego and biopolitical silencing
• Chapter 5. White iconicity: Necro-politics, disalienation and Black beauty shame scripts
• Chapter 6. The shame of 'mixedness': Black exclusion and dis/alienation
• Chapter 7. Post-racial Black beauty shame's alter/native futures: The counter conduct of 'race' performativity.