Combining 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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 'Beauty Comes From Within'; Chapter 2 Anti-Racist Aesthetics in the 21st Century; Chapter 3 'Race', Beauty and Melancholia; Chapter 4 The Shame of Beauty is its Transformative Potential; Chapter 5 'The Browning', Straighteners, and Fake Tan; Chapter 6 Hybrid Black Beauty?; Chapter 7 Conclusion;
