Skin Bleaching in Black Atlantic Zones: Shade Shifters
Skin Bleaching in Black Atlantic Zones: Shade Shifters by Shirley Anne Tate
English | 13 Nov. 2015 | ISBN: 1137498447 | 146 Pages | PDF (True) | 1.18 MB
English | 13 Nov. 2015 | ISBN: 1137498447 | 146 Pages | PDF (True) | 1.18 MB
This book goes beyond low self-esteem and self-hatred as explanations for black people's skin bleaching, lightening and toning and focuses on the continuing colourism in 'post-race' aesthetics in the twenty-first century, exploring racialized gender political and libidinal economies in the Black Atlantic.