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Michael Jackson and the Quandary of a Black Identity

Michael Jackson and the Quandary of a Black Identity

Pinder, Sherrow O.

Paperback

Series: Suny African American Studies

Black American StudiesGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1438484801
ISBN13: 9781438484808
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jan 2 2022
Pages: 231
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

A close examination of the complexity inherent in Michael Jackson's ambiguous racial identity.

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.

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