Michael Jackson and the Quandary of a Black Identity

By:

Sherrow O Pinder

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Hardback

Series:

SUNY Series in African American Studies

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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.

Author Biography:

Sherrow O. Pinder is Professor of Political Science and Multicultural and Gender Studies at California State University, Chico. She has published several books, including Black Political Thought: From David Walker to the Present.

Release date Australia

August 1st, 2021

Author

Sherrow O Pinder

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Illustrations

Total Illustrations: 0

Pages

231

Series

SUNY Series in African American Studies

Dimensions

152x229x25

ISBN-13

9781438484792

Product ID

35160596

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