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Beneath the Surface

- A Transnational History of Skin Lighteners
Af: Lynn M. Thomas Engelsk Paperback

Beneath the Surface

- A Transnational History of Skin Lighteners
Af: Lynn M. Thomas Engelsk Paperback
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For more than a century, skin lighteners have been a ubiquitous feature of global popular culture—embraced by consumers even as they were fiercely opposed by medical professionals, consumer health advocates, and antiracist thinkers and activists. In Beneath the Surface, Lynn M. Thomas constructs a transnational history of skin lighteners in South Africa and beyond. Analyzing a wide range of archival, popular culture, and oral history sources, Thomas traces the changing meanings of skin color from precolonial times to the postcolonial present. From indigenous skin-brightening practices and the rapid spread of lighteners in South African consumer culture during the 1940s and 1950s to the growth of a billion-dollar global lightener industry, Thomas shows how the use of skin lighteners and experiences of skin color have been shaped by slavery, colonialism, and segregation as well as by consumer capitalism, visual media, notions of beauty, and protest politics. In teasing out lighteners’ layered history, Thomas theorizes skin as a site for antiracist struggle and lighteners as a technology of visibility that both challenges and entrenches racial and gender hierarchies.
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For more than a century, skin lighteners have been a ubiquitous feature of global popular culture—embraced by consumers even as they were fiercely opposed by medical professionals, consumer health advocates, and antiracist thinkers and activists. In Beneath the Surface, Lynn M. Thomas constructs a transnational history of skin lighteners in South Africa and beyond. Analyzing a wide range of archival, popular culture, and oral history sources, Thomas traces the changing meanings of skin color from precolonial times to the postcolonial present. From indigenous skin-brightening practices and the rapid spread of lighteners in South African consumer culture during the 1940s and 1950s to the growth of a billion-dollar global lightener industry, Thomas shows how the use of skin lighteners and experiences of skin color have been shaped by slavery, colonialism, and segregation as well as by consumer capitalism, visual media, notions of beauty, and protest politics. In teasing out lighteners’ layered history, Thomas theorizes skin as a site for antiracist struggle and lighteners as a technology of visibility that both challenges and entrenches racial and gender hierarchies.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 368
ISBN-13: 9781478006428
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1478006420
Kategori: Republic of South Africa
Udg. Dato: 10 jan 2020
Længde: 20mm
Bredde: 230mm
Højde: 154mm
Forlag: Duke University Press
Oplagsdato: 10 jan 2020
Forfatter(e): Lynn M. Thomas
Forfatter(e) Lynn M. Thomas

Kategori Republic of South Africa

ISBN-13 9781478006428

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 368

Udgave

Længde 20mm

Bredde 230mm

Højde 154mm

Udg. Dato 10 jan 2020

Oplagsdato 10 jan 2020

Forlag Duke University Press

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