{"product_id":"michael-jackson-and-the-quandary-of-a-black-identity-9781438484792","title":"Michael Jackson and the Quandary of a Black","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA close examination of the complexity inherent in Michael Jackson''s ambiguous racial identity.\u003c\/b\u003e\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","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039770935639,"sku":"9781438484792","price":65.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781438484792.jpg?v=1750944779","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/michael-jackson-and-the-quandary-of-a-black-identity-9781438484792","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}