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Michael Jackson and the Quandary of a Black Identity
Sherrow O. Pinder
Michael Jackson and the Quandary of a Black Identity
Sherrow O. Pinder
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.
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | January 2, 2022 |
ISBN13 | 9781438484808 |
Publishers | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 231 |
Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 25 mm · 344 g |
Language | English |
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