The article The Quandary of Being Michael Jackson was published
the other day on a Chico, California news site. The author,
Professor Sherrow Pinder, lectured to CSU, Chico students about
Jackson's desire for racial ambiguity, his identity as a black
man, his skin color, plastic surgeries and other issues. The
article begins by stating that Professor Pinder grew up in
Guyana in South America. She then received her doctorate in New
York, and is now an assistant professor at CSU, Chico in both
social sciences and political science. She is also the author of
three books, all focused on racial identity. The article moves
on to state that Pinder has "read voluminously about the
entertainer". The following blog is a rebuttal to Professor
Pinder's assessment of Michael Jackson. 1. Pinder states that
Franz Fanon's idea (from his work Black Skin, White Mask) that
the black man "not only must....be black; he must be black in
relation to the white man." Pinder argues that this created a
"profound crisis of identity' wit