{"product_id":"9781438484792","title":"Michael Jackson and the Quandary of a Black Identity (Suny series in African American Studies)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA close examination of the complexity inherent in Michael Jackson's ambiguous racial identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn Michael Jackson and the Quandary of a Black Identity, 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","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49819670675704,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":203.67,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.au\/products\/9781438484792","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}