Kelly,A. Paul (Author) and Taylor,Susan C. (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
New York: McGraw Hill Professional
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
800 p, Includes Wilbert C. Jordan's "Homeopathic medicine and spiritualism: African-American voodoo and healing remedies"; Marcia Ramos-e-Silva, Gabriela Munhoz-da-Fontoura, and Dóris Hexsel's "Common skin diseases and treatments in Latin America: Brazil"; and "Atlas for skin of color: Africa, Asia, and Latin America";
Focuses on the performativity of Black beauty shame as it transforms or intensifies the meanings of parts of the body in Jamaica and its UK diaspora. Uses extracts from interviews with UK Jamaican heritage women. The women’s critique of the shaming event shows that shame is undone through dis-identification as speakers draw on alternative beauty discourses to produce new beauty subjectivities.
