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Black Beauty Shame: Intensification, Skin Ego and Biopolitical Silencing

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The Governmentality of Black Beauty Shame

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Constructed through enslavement and colonialism, Black beauty shame drags the coloniality of power, being, knowledge and affect into the twenty-first century. Its silencing and silences work through intensification, which floods one with a suffusive sensation that isolates through precise individuation and a relationality which one cannot control. Black beauty shame is about social, political, economic and psychic domination through subjectification’s biopolitical racializing assemblages, whereas subjectivation as unashamed produced through dis/alienation points to alter/native Black beauty.

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Tate, S.A. (2018). Black Beauty Shame: Intensification, Skin Ego and Biopolitical Silencing. In: The Governmentality of Black Beauty Shame. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52258-0_4

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