{"product_id":"michael-jackson-and-the-quandary-of-a-black-identity-hardcover","title":"Michael Jackson and the Quandary of a Black Identity - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSherrow O. Pinder\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMichael Jackson and the Quandary of a Black Identity\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSherrow O. Pinder\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Political Science and Multicultural and Gender Studies at California State University, Chico. She has published several books, including \u003ci\u003eBlack Political Thought: From David Walker to the Present\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 231\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 01, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51786344431904,"sku":"9781438484792","price":177.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/dc6ed068480d64536d5c8706f72a2c42_91be1b7f-9b35-4fc1-b650-326c4ce1bdaa.webp?v=1780632630","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/michael-jackson-and-the-quandary-of-a-black-identity-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}