‘That is my Star of David’
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20067529 |
|---|---|
| Authors | S Tate (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Pages | 223-236 |
| Publication date | 2003-09-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Thinking Through the Skin (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4324/9780203165706-21 |
| OpenAlex | W333931486 |
| ISBN | 9780203165706 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Sarah’s words evoke a truism about being Black in contemporary Britain: skin signifies. It is a mark of ethnicity, status, identity, self-hood. Her words speak of the continuation of the ‘racial epidermal schema’ highlighted by Frantz Fanon in Black Skin White Masks (1986: 112). In the colonial context, he argues, Black others bear, ‘the burden of that corporeal malediction’ provided by, ‘the white man, who had woven [him] out of a thousand details, anecdotes, stories’ (Fanon 1986: 111). Through the discursive construction of difference that emanates from the dominant culture, Black women and men continue to be placed as other: as Black others imprisoned by discourses of skin
Art · Astronomy · Astrophysics · Physics · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2010 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |