Decolonising Sambo: Transculturation, Fungibility and Black and People of Colour Futurity (Critical Mixed Race Studies) - Hardcover

Tate, Shirley Anne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1789733480 ISBN 13: 9781789733488

Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019

Synopsis

Using a Black decolonial feminist approach, this book deconstructs 'the white sambo psyche' of white European settler colonialism, which classifies the colonized and enslaved into 'sambo': a category of racial subjection and utter negation which is now so normalized that we are inured to it.

Drawing on voyages both real and metaphorical to places such as Australia, South Africa, Jamaica, the Dutch West Indies, and the UK, Decolonizing Sambo positions itself amongst the global entanglements of white European settler colonialism, racial capitalism and contemporary culture. This cultural analysis analyses archival data, artefacts, commemorative spaces, films, children's books, and sweets to show sambo's genealogy, transculturation, fungibility, and continuation in contemporary racializing assemblages.

As we continue to live in an era of 'samboification', this book provides scholars and students with the materials to start thinking about sambo as an (un)known part of colonialism and explore 'post-race' racism within which professions of sincere love for the racialized other are an active aspect of (post) colonial states' self-deception about being 'post-race'.

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Review:

"This is a passionate, powerful and hugely impressive piece of scholarship. Shirley Tate's best work yet. The breadth of material, the innovative use of language and above all the power of the critique of racism and racialized representations - just tremendous." --Professor Ian Law, University of Leeds, UK

About the Author:

Shirley Anne Tate is Canada Research Chair Tier 1 in Feminism and Intersectionality at the University of Alberta, Canada and Honorary Professor, Chair for Critical Studies in Higher Education Transformation at Nelson Mandela University, South Africa. Her research has been published in various journals and she has authored several books, including The Governmentality of Black Beauty Shame (2017) and Black Women's Bodies and the Nation (2015).

About this edition

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1789733480
• ISBN 13: 9781789733488
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 184