Download or read book Tales Of Dark Skinned Women written by Gargi Bhattacharyya and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1998-09-29 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the way race and gender are portrayed in popular culture, this text focuses on the representation of black women. It incorporates a discussion of the politics of representation in Britain and North America, and the shift from negative stereotypes to positive images to postmodern knowingness. The author pays particular attention to the reach of various race/gender literacies, most notably the impact of North American racial discourse on British conceptions of Asian and Afro-Caribbean femininity.