Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body
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Black Male
Black Male Body
Black Man
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critical race theory
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Fl Ashback
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Gender Studies
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Hip Hop
hip hop cultural studies
Ideal Human Form
Jack Shainman Gallery
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Lightjet Print
lynching
lynching imagery research
Lynching Photograph
Lynching Photography
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Neo-slave Narratives
Oppressive Implications
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photograph
photographic analysis
photography
power dynamics in art
racialized visual representation
Spectacle Lynching
Spectacle Violence
supremacist
Thomas's Work
Thomas’s Work
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Violence and Visual Culture
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Weems's Work
Weems’s Work
Whipped Wind
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Wounded Attachment
wounded black masculinity discourse
Wounded Body
Young Men
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- ISBN 9780415880428
- Weight: 440g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 25 Aug 2010
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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From early photographs of disfigured slaves to contemporary representations of bullet-riddled rappers, images of wounded black men have long permeated American culture. While scholars have fittingly focused on the ever-present figure of the hypermasculine black male, little consideration has been paid to the wounded black man as a persistent cultural figure. This book considers images of wounded black men on various stages, including early photography, contemporary art, hip hop, and new media. Focusing primarily on photographic images, Jackson explores the wound as a specular moment that mediates power relations between seers and the seen. Historically, the representation of wounded black men has privileged the viewer in service of white supremacist thought. At the same time, contemporary artists have deployed the figure to expose and disrupt this very power paradigm. Jackson suggests that the relationship between the viewer and the viewed is not so much static as fluid, and that wounds serve as intricate negotiations of power structures that cannot always be simplified into the condensed narratives of victims and victimizers. Overall, Jackson attempts to address both the ways in which the wound has been exploited to patrol and contain black masculinity, as well as the ways in which twentieth century artists have represented the wound to disrupt its oppressive implications
Cassandra Jackson is Associate Professor of American literature at The College of New Jersey. She is the author of ‘Barriers Between Us’: Interracial Sex in 19th Century American Literature.
