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

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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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xi Introduction: Developing a Black Decolonial Feminist Approach to Black Beauty Shame (Shirley Anne Tate)....Pages 1-17 The Governmentality of Silence and Silencing and Black Beauty Shame (Shirley Anne Tate)....Pages 19-30 Reading Black Beauty Shame in Talk: An Ethnomethodologically Inclined Discourse Analysis (Shirley Anne Tate)....Pages 31-47 Black Beauty Shame: Intensification, Skin Ego and Biopolitical Silencing (Shirley Anne Tate)....Pages 49-64 White Iconicity: Necropolitics, Disalienation and Black Beauty Shame Scripts (Shirley Anne Tate)....Pages 65-84 The Shame of ‘Mixedness’: Black Exclusion and Dis/alienation (Shirley Anne Tate)....Pages 85-116 Conclusion: Post-Racial Black Beauty Shame’s Alter/Native Futures: The Counter-Conduct of ‘Race’ Performativity (Shirley Anne Tate)....Pages 117-134 Back Matter ....Pages 135-141