- Taschenbuch: 240 Seiten
- Verlag: Rutgers Univ Pr (April 2002)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0813530326
- ISBN-13: 978-0813530321
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 2,3 x 1,6 x 0,2 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.181.671 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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In his first book, Martin (English, Florida State Univ.) examines America's obsession with skin color in a remarkably direct fashion. Taking a literary approach, he focuses on the image of the white Negro (born with albinism or suffering from vitiligo, which robs the skin of pigment) in American social history and popular culture, showing how that bewildering figure served and still serves as a reminder of the nation's color prejudice since the late 18th century. The result is a unique expos of the perception, interpretation, and exploitation of race in America addressing not only the social construction of cultural preferences within a racial dichotomy but also the inherent dubiousness of racial justifications for social, cultural, and historical actions. Every American with a need to understand the racial dilemmas and stigmas that persistently inflame and sustain America's tumultuous race relations, even as the nation purports to see the need to placate them, can benefit from reading this book. The language, however, makes the work more appropriate for college-educated audiences. Recommended primarily for academic libraries. Edward K. Owusu-Ansah, Coll. of Staten Island Lib., CUNY
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Synopsis
Blacks with white skin. Since colonial times, showmen have exhibited the bodies of African Americans with white or gradually whitening skin in taverns, dime museums, and circus sideshows. The term "white Negro" has served to describe an individual born with albinism as well as those who have vitiligo, a disorder that robs the skin of its pigment in evergrowing patches. (Performer Michael Jackson claims that he has this ailment.) In The White African American Body, Charles D. Martin examines the proliferation of the image of the white Negro in American popular culture, from the late eighteenth century through to the present day. This enigmatic figure highlights the folly of the belief in immutable racial differences. If skin is a race marker, what does it mean for blacks literally to be white? What does this say not only about blacks but also about whites? Scientists have probed this mystery, philosophers and a president (Thomas Jefferson) pondered what it all meant, and painters and photographers have profited from distributing images of these disturbing figures. Martin devotes a chapter to Michael Jackson and to our society's reaction to the transformation of his body.Lavishly illustrated - with many rarely seen images - The White African American Body shows how the white Negro occupied, and still occupies, the precarious position between white and black, and how this figure remains resilient in American culture.
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24. Januar 2012
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This is an incredible book--the author details the fascination with the 'White African American Body'--this means Blacks who were albinos or who had the disease vitiligo. As early as the 1600's, Blacks with these skin conditions were shown as 'exhibits' in taverns, dime-museums, and fairs. Thomas Jefferson, for instance, found this phenomenon fascinating. The author traces this through history all the way up to Michael Jackson. The book was published in 02, so the author does not talk about MJ's death. However, he covers the way MJ was treated by others, including the media, his '93 strip search, and his video Black or White. It's a scholarly study and he spends time discussing history, racial identity and examples in American literature of WHITENESS, like the White Whale--Moby Dick, by Herman Melville.
This is a wonderful book--it raises the issue of wherein lies 'racial identity'--in the color of the skin? If so, what happens when a Black person's skin becomes white? In this case, all divisions and classifications are challenged. Charles Martin discusses how the public and critics tried to turn MJ into an exhibit, a thing, and how he tried to regain his own personhood--what Martin calls his 'agency'-- in the face of this effort to dehumanize him. Regarding the strip search, which focused on MJ's penis (this is historically where the focus ends up in the audience's fascination--the genitals), the author writes that according to press reports, MJ became angry, upset, defiant during the strip-search, which lasted about 20 minutes and involved him being examined by detectives, drs., and videotaped naked:
"Reported as examples of childish petulance and the telling disobedience of a guilty man, these acts also demonstrate the efforts of an exhibited white Negro body to refuse to remain passive before gawking onlookers and achieve some kind of agency." (177)
Even though the media and others constantly tried to turn him into a freak (the 'enfreakment' of a great artist), MJ fought back and made it his goal to resist. I strongly recommend this book. I would love to find out what the author thinks now that MJ has died and his vitiligo (greeted with suspicion and derision while he was alive) has been confirmed by an autopsy report.
This is a wonderful book--it raises the issue of wherein lies 'racial identity'--in the color of the skin? If so, what happens when a Black person's skin becomes white? In this case, all divisions and classifications are challenged. Charles Martin discusses how the public and critics tried to turn MJ into an exhibit, a thing, and how he tried to regain his own personhood--what Martin calls his 'agency'-- in the face of this effort to dehumanize him. Regarding the strip search, which focused on MJ's penis (this is historically where the focus ends up in the audience's fascination--the genitals), the author writes that according to press reports, MJ became angry, upset, defiant during the strip-search, which lasted about 20 minutes and involved him being examined by detectives, drs., and videotaped naked:
"Reported as examples of childish petulance and the telling disobedience of a guilty man, these acts also demonstrate the efforts of an exhibited white Negro body to refuse to remain passive before gawking onlookers and achieve some kind of agency." (177)
Even though the media and others constantly tried to turn him into a freak (the 'enfreakment' of a great artist), MJ fought back and made it his goal to resist. I strongly recommend this book. I would love to find out what the author thinks now that MJ has died and his vitiligo (greeted with suspicion and derision while he was alive) has been confirmed by an autopsy report.
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