Download or read book Black Beauty written by Shirley Anne Tate and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: identity politics, the author reveals how Black women themselves speak about, negotiate, inhabit, work on and perform Black beauty. Rather than dwelling on the workings of racialized beauty standards, this book reveals how women work with and against existing beauty paradigms to bring new Black beauty ideals into view at the level of the everyday. As such, it will appeal not only to sociologists, but anyone working in the fields of race, ethnicity and post-colonial thought, feminism, cultural studies and the sociology of the body." --Book Jacket.