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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464060703321

Autore

Hill Shannen L. <1964->

Titolo

The Biko's ghost : the iconography of black consciousness / / Shannen L. Hill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minnesota ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2015

©2015

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (415 p.)

Disciplina

704.9/49305896

Soggetti

Black people in art

Black people in popular culture - Race relations

Art and social action - Race relations

Electronic books.

South Africa Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: Contents Abbreviations -- Introduction: Let's Talk about Consciousness -- 1. Shaping Modern Black Culture in the 1970's -- 2. Of Icons and Inquests: "Steve Biko, God Be with You, BPC" -- 3. Contemplating Death: Artists and Abjection -- 4. Creating a Culture of Resistance -- 5. Silencing the Censors: Black Consciousness between the Lines in the 1980's -- 6. Transitions and Truths in a New Democracy -- 7. Museum, Monument, Marking: Black Consciousness in the New Millennium -- Epilogue: "After Such a Long Time His Life Is Still Dug Out" -- Acknowledgments: I Write What I Must -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

""When you say, 'Black is Beautiful,' what in fact you are saying. is: Man, you are okay as you are; begin to look upon yourself as a human being." With such statements, Stephen Biko became the voice of Black Consciousness. And with Biko's brutal death in the custody of the South African police, he became a martyr, an enduring symbol of the horrors of apartheid. Through the lens of visual culture, Biko's Ghost reveals how the man and the ideology he promoted have profoundly influenced



liberation politics and race discourse--in South Africa and around the globe--ever since. Tracing the linked histories of Black Consciousness and its most famous proponent, Biko's Ghost explores the concepts of unity, ancestry, and action that lie at the heart of the ideology and the man. It challenges the dominant historical view of Black Consciousness as ineffectual or racially exclusive, suppressed on the one side by the apartheid regime and on the other by the African National Congress. Engaging theories of trauma and representation, and icon and ideology, Shannen L. Hill considers the martyred Biko as an embattled icon, his image portrayals assuming different shapes and political meanings in different hands. So, too, does she illuminate how Black Consciousness worked behind the scenes throughout the 1980's, a decade of heightened popular unrest and state censorship. She shows how--in streams of imagery that continue to multiply nearly forty years on--Biko's visage and the ongoing life of Black Consciousness served as instruments through which artists could combat the abuses of apartheid and unsettle the "rainbow nation" that followed. "--

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779158503321

Autore

Milette Greg

Titolo

Professional Android sensor programming [[electronic resource] /] / Greg Milette, Adam Stroud

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Indianapolis, : John Wiley & Sons, 2012

ISBN

1-280-67894-1

9786613655875

1-118-22745-X

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (556 p.)

Collana

Wrox programmer to programmer

Altri autori (Persone)

StroudAdam

Disciplina

005.258

005.265

Soggetti

Mobile computing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Location services -- pt. 2. Inferring information from physical sensors -- pt. 3. Sensing the augmented, pattern-rich external world



-- pt. 4. Speaking to Android.

Sommario/riassunto

Learn to build human-interactive Android apps, starting with device sensors This book shows Android developers how to exploit the rich set of device sensors-locational, physical (temperature, pressure, light, acceleration, etc.), cameras, microphones, and speech recognition-in order to build fully human-interactive Android applications. Whether providing hands-free directions or checking your blood pressure, Professional Android Sensor Programming shows how to turn possibility into reality. The authors provide techniques that bridge the gap between accessing sensors and putti