1st Edition

From Post-Intersectionality to Black Decolonial Feminism Black Skin Affections

By Shirley Anne Tate Copyright 2023
202 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

202 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

202 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

In this accessible and yet challenging work, Shirley Anne Tate engages with race and gender intersectionality, connecting through to affect theory, to develop a Black decolonial feminist analysis of global anti-Blackness. Through the focus on skin, Tate provides a groundwork of historical context and theoretical framing to engage more contemporary examples of racist constructions of Blackness... Read more

1 Black skin affections: Black feminist decolonial reading into freedom; 2 Feeling our way: Black skin’s affective politics and intersectionality; 3 Racialized fascination: Modelling and skin shade; 4 White fear-hate of Black men’s bodies: Masculinity and skin affective politics; 5 Beauty pageants: The global politics of skin shade; 6 Conclusion: Intersectional skin still matters: Thinking in Black

Biography

Shirley Anne Tate is Professor and Canada Research Chair Tier 1 in Feminism and Intersectionality, Sociology Department, University of Alberta and Honorary Professor, Nelson Mandela University. Being an African-descent Jamaican impacts her research on Black diaspora studies, the intersections of race and gender, institutional racism, Blackness, affect, 'race' performativity and Caribbean decolonial theory.