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Michael Jackson and the Quandary of a Black Identity
Engelsk Paperback
Michael Jackson and the Quandary of a Black Identity
Engelsk Paperback

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A close examination of the complexity inherent in Michael Jackson''s ambiguous racial identity.

In Michael Jackson and the Quandary of a Black Identity, Sherrow O. Pinder explores the ways in which the late singer''s racial identification process problematizes conceptualizations of race and the presentation of blackness that reduces blacks to a bodily mark. Pinder is particularly interested in how Michael Jackson simultaneously performs his racial identity and posits it against strict binary racial definitions, neither black nor white. While Jackson''s self-fashioning deconstructs and challenges the corporeal notions of "natural bodies" and fixed identities, negative readings of the King of Pop fuel epithets such as "weird" or "freak," subjecting him to a form of antagonism that denies the black body its self-determination. Thus, for Jackson, racial identification becomes a deeply ambivalent process, which leads to the fragmentation of his identity into plural identities. Pinder shows how Jackson as a racialized subject is discursively confined to a "third space," a liminal space of ambivalence.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
231
ISBN-13:
9781438484808
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1438484801
Udg. Dato:
2 jan 2022
Længde:
0mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
State University of New York Press
Oplagsdato:
2 jan 2022
Forfatter(e):
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