Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-171) and index.
Introduction -- 'Beauty comes from within': or does it? -- Anti-racist aesthetics in the 21st century: the matter of hair -- 'Race', beauty and melancholia: shade -- The shame of beauty is its transformative potential -- 'The browning', straighteners, and fake tan -- Hybrid black beauty? -- Conclusion: is it all stylization and is there a need for black beauty citizenship?
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Combining rich ethnographic research amongst Black British women of Caribbean heritage, with a discussion of the broader 'Black Atlantic' context, Shirley Tate offers a unique exploration of beauty, race and identity politics, revealing how Black women themselves speak about, negotiate, inhabit, work on and perform Black beauty.
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Black beauty.
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Beauty, Personal-- Caribbean, English-speaking.
Self-perception in women-- Caribbean, English-speaking.