Black Beauty: Aesthetics, Stylization, PoliticsCombining rich ethnographic research amongst Black British women of Caribbean heritage, with a discussion of the broader 'Black Atlantic' context, Shirley Tate offers a unique exploration of beauty, race and identity politics, revealing how Black women themselves speak about, negotiate, inhabit, work on and perform Black beauty. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Beauty Comes From Within Or Does It? | 17 |
AntiRacist Aesthetics in the 21st Century The Matter of Hair | 35 |
Race Beauty and Melancholia Shade | 53 |
The Shame of Beauty is its Transformative Potential | 79 |
The Browning Straighteners and Fake Tan | 99 |
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