Violence, visual culture, and the black male body / Cassandra Jackson.

Violence, visual culture, and the black male body /

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 pa...

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Main Author: Jackson, Cassandra, 1972-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2011.
Series:Routledge research in cultural and media studies ; 27.
Subjects:
African American men in popular culture.
African American men > Violence against.
Arts, American.
Human body > Social aspects > United States.
Visual communication > Social aspects > United States.
Violence > Social aspects > United States.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Early Photography and the Cultural Work of Wounds; 2 Photography and the Disabled Black Subject in the Art of Carrie Mae Weems; 3 Fantasies of Wounding: Black Male Bodies in Hip Hop; 5 The Appropriation of Lynching Photography; 6 Seeing Without Looking: Lynching in Charles W. Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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