Black Skins, Black Masks
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An-other Black
Authentic Black Womanhood
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Black Authenticity
Black Identity
Black Masks
Black Politics
Black Skin
Black Woman Identification
Black Women
Black Women's Identities
black women's lived experience research
Black Women's Talk
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Critical Ontologies
cultural identity negotiation
Double Consciousness
Elderly White People
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everyday discourse analysis
Gendered Readings
Hybrid Identifications
Identity Re-positioning
Identity Repositioning
intersectionality theory
Interstitial Agency
Interstitial Community
Laura's Talk
Performative Discourse
postcolonial theory
qualitative ethnography
race and gender studies
Reflexivity Sequence
Rude Girl
Storied Hybridity
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Product details
- ISBN 9780754636410
- Weight: 510g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jan 2005
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Black Skin, Black Masks: Hybridity, Dialogism, Performativity offers a timely exploration of Black identity and its negotiation. The book draws on empirical work recording everyday conversations between Black women: friends, peers and family members. These conversations are discussed in the light of the work of Homi Bhabha, Stuart Hall, Gerd Baumann, Claire Alexander and others on questions of hybridity, identity, otherness and the development of ’new ethnicities’. Tate aims to address what she sees as significant omissions in contemporary Black Cultural Studies. She argues that theorists have rarely looked at the process of identity construction in terms of lived-experience; and that they have tended to concentrate on the demise of the essential Black subject, paying little attention to gender. The book points to a continuation of a ’politics of the skin’ in Black identities. As such it argues against Bhabha's claim that essence is not central to hybrid identities. The conversations recorded in the book reveal the ways in which women negotiate the category of Blackness, in what Tate calls a 'hybridity-of- the-everyday'. The book introduces a new interpretative vocabulary to look at the ways in which hybridity is orchestrated and fashioned, showing it to be performative, dialogical and dependent on essentialism.
Shirley Anne Tate is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies in the Sociology Department at The Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
