Description: Black Skin, Black Masks: Hybridity, Dialogism, Performativity offers a timely exploration of Black identity and its negotiation. The book draws on empirical work recording everyday conversations between Black women: friends, peers and family members. The conversations recorded in the book reveal the ways in which women negotiate the category of Bla
Review Quotes: 'What is so exceptional and exciting about this book is how it brings key concepts from post-colonial theory to life by putting those concepts into dialogue with the talk of Black women. By offering such a careful and critical analysis of the hybridity of the everyday, where Blackness is a matter of talk, experience, skin and community, this book points us to the future, to how anti-racist struggle can make new spaces and worlds. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to think hard and well about the politics of race, gender and empire.' Sara Ahmed, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK 'In Black Skins, Black Masks, Shirley Tate explores the lived experience of what she calls hybridity of the everyday. The strength of Tate's work is the meticulous analysis that connects the abstracted theory to the voices of the Black women who took part in the research. This sophisticated and innovative account of the ways in which the essential discourses of race continue to inform Black cultural politics is an important and timely addition to the scholarship on gender, race, ethnicity and culture.' Dr Suki Ali, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK