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Black Skins, Black Masks - Hybridity, Dialogism, Performativity (Hardcover, New edition)
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Black Skins, Black Masks - Hybridity, Dialogism, Performativity (Hardcover, New edition)
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Black Skin, Black Masks: Hybridity, Dialogism, Performativity
offers a timely exploration of Black identity and its negotiation.
The book draws on empirical work recording everyday conversations
between Black women: friends, peers and family members. These
conversations are discussed in the light of the work of Homi
Bhabha, Stuart Hall, Gerd Baumann, Claire Alexander and others on
questions of hybridity, identity, otherness and the development of
'new ethnicities'. Tate aims to address what she sees as
significant omissions in contemporary Black Cultural Studies. She
argues that theorists have rarely looked at the process of identity
construction in terms of lived-experience; and that they have
tended to concentrate on the demise of the essential Black subject,
paying little attention to gender. The book points to a
continuation of a 'politics of the skin' in Black identities. As
such it argues against Bhabha's claim that essence is not central
to hybrid identities. The conversations recorded in the book reveal
the ways in which women negotiate the category of Blackness, in
what Tate calls a 'hybridity-of- the-everyday'. The book introduces
a new interpretative vocabulary to look at the ways in which
hybridity is orchestrated and fashioned, showing it to be
performative, dialogical and dependent on essentialism.
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