The Fact of Blackness? The Bleached Body in Contemporary Jamaica
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4765686 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Winnifred Brown-Glaude (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 34-51 |
| Publication date | 2007-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Small Axe A Caribbean Journal of Criticism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1534-6714 • E-ISSN: 0799-0537 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/-11-3-34 |
| OpenAlex | W2126689347 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 12 |
This essay examines public discussions around skin bleaching in Jamaica and demonstrates that a discourse of pathology is a dominant frame of meaning used to explain this practice. I argue that the practice of bleaching destabilizes popular conceptions of blackness that rely on an understanding of the body as immutable and naturally marked by race. Depicting skin bleaching as pathological attempts to recenter hegemonic conceptions of blackness and to discipline bodies so that they adhere to them
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Frame (networking · Hegemony · Meaning (existential · Political science · Politics · Race (biology · Representation (politics · Sociology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Gender Studies · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society
Contrasting Scientific Discourses of Skin Lightening in Domestic and Global Contexts
Body image disturbance and skin bleaching
The Need for Interventions to Prevent Skin Bleaching
Exploring Her Roots
Black Wadada
Crystal clear
Skin Bleaching and the Prestige Complexion of Sexual Attraction
Ah My Brownin' Dat!”
Cultural singularity
Beauty
Diaspora strategies, skilled migrants and human capital enhancement in Jamaica
The performativity of Black beauty shame in Jamaica and its diaspora
Racial inequality in the Anglophone Caribbean
Racial inequality and the recognition of racial discrimination in Jamaica
Examining Race in Jamaica
In the Flesh
Black Skin, White Masks
The Body and Social Theory
The Emergence of Modern Blackness in Jamaica
Modern Blackness
Everyday Race-Making
Contradictory socio-economic consequences of structural adjustment in Kingston, Jamaica
Size Matters
The Dundus and the Nation
Human Nature and Race
Medicalization and Social Control
Blackening the Jamaican nation
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2024 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |