Skin bleaching in Black Atlantic zones [electronic resource] : shade shifters / Shirley Anne Tate.
2015
GT498.S56
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Title
Skin bleaching in Black Atlantic zones [electronic resource] : shade shifters / Shirley Anne Tate.
Author
Tate, Shirley Anne, author.
ISBN
9781137498465 (electronic book)
1137498463 (electronic book)
9781349698202
9781137498441
1137498463 (electronic book)
9781349698202
9781137498441
Published
[Basingstoke] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
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GT498.S56
Dewey Decimal Classification
646.7/26
Summary
This book's discussion of skin bleaching, lightening and toning in Black Atlantic zones disengages with the usual tropes of Black Nationalism and global white supremacy such as 'the desire to be white', 'low self-esteem' and 'self-hatred' and instead engages with the global multi-billion dollar market in lighter skins with products from local cosmetic and pharmaceutical companies and entrepreneurs. This practice can be for short-term strategic purposes and the production of bleached lightness and new subjectivities through skin shades across Black Atlantic zones - the UK, USA, Caribbean, Latin America and the Africa continent- is also a simultaneous critique of continuing pigmentocracy and darker skin disadvantage. This book seeks to decolonize skin bleaching, lightening and toning by exploring its racialized gender political and libidinal economies in the Black Atlantic. In so doing it moves past the notion that global white supremacy dynamizes the practice to a position where the interaction of colourism and 'post-race' neo-liberal racialization aesthetics becomes the focus.
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Palgrave pivot.
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Skin Bleaching in Black Atlantic Zones : Shade Shifters.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Skin
1. A brief Black/white/light history of skin bleaching/lightening/toning
2. Self-hate: An old debate revisited
3. The political and libidinal economies of skin shade: The poor 'bleach', the middle class/ elite 'tone'/'lighten'
4. Nadinola and Glutathione: Refining a dangerous practice
Conclusion. Decolonizing skin: Do Black people have an ethical obligation not to bleach?
1. A brief Black/white/light history of skin bleaching/lightening/toning
2. Self-hate: An old debate revisited
3. The political and libidinal economies of skin shade: The poor 'bleach', the middle class/ elite 'tone'/'lighten'
4. Nadinola and Glutathione: Refining a dangerous practice
Conclusion. Decolonizing skin: Do Black people have an ethical obligation not to bleach?