Michael Jackson and the Quandary of a Black Identity EPUB
by Sherrow O. Pinder
Part of the SUNY series in African American Studies series
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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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- Pages:231 pages
- Publisher:State University of New York Press
- Publication Date:01/08/2021
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- ISBN:9781438484815
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Pages:231 pages
- Publisher:State University of New York Press
- Publication Date:01/08/2021
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- ISBN:9781438484815
