The Shame of ‘Mixedness’: Black Exclusion and Dis/alienation

This chapter uses ‘brownness’ as ideal to take up a discussion of somaesthetics and sarkaesthetics through looking at the shame caused by negative aesthetic value within Black Nationalist politics attached to being Black-white ‘mixed race’ and its ‘dissing’. That is, Black women’s bodies are a medium for creating aesthetic value through the subject’s adoption of a third-person perspective, enabling the emergence of dis/alienation from existing Black Atlantic discourses on the Black woman’s beauty shame.