TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pinder,Sherrow O.
TI  - Michael Jackson and the quandary of a Black identity /Sherrow O. Pinder
T2  - SUNY Series in African American Studies
SN  - 9781438484815
AV  - ML420 .M534 2021
KW  - Jackson, Michael,
KW  - Black people
KW  - Race identity
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Music and race
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Conceptual framework --; Blackness and a Black identity --; Michael Jackson and racial identification --; Michael Jackson's nonconformity and its consequences; 2; b
N2  - "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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