How Long to Read Michael Jackson and the Quandary of a Black Identity

How Long Does it Take to Read Michael Jackson and the Quandary of a Black Identity?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 42 minutes to read Michael Jackson and the Quandary of a Black Identity by Sherrow O. Pinder

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In Michael Jackson and the Quandary of a Black Identity, 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.

How long is Michael Jackson and the Quandary of a Black Identity?

Michael Jackson and the Quandary of a Black Identity by Sherrow O. Pinder is 276 pages long, and a total of 70,656 words.

This makes it 93% the length of the average book. It also has 86% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Michael Jackson and the Quandary of a Black Identity Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 26 minutes to read Michael Jackson and the Quandary of a Black Identity aloud.

What Reading Level is Michael Jackson and the Quandary of a Black Identity?

Michael Jackson and the Quandary of a Black Identity is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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