Pinder, Sherrow O., <br/><br/>
Michael Jackson and the quandary of a Black identity /Sherrow O. Pinder. 

 - 1 online resource (223 pages) 
 - SUNY Series in African American Studies .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Conceptual framework --  Blackness and a Black identity --  Michael Jackson and racial identification --  Michael Jackson's nonconformity and its consequences. 
<br/><br/> "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."--ProQuest website. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781438484815 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Jackson, Michael, 1958-2009 --Criticism and interpretation.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Black people--Race identity.<br/>African Americans--Race identity.<br/>Music and race.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>ML420  / .M534 2021