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UNINA9910814750403321 |
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Autore |
Jackson Cassandra <1972-> |
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Titolo |
Violence, visual culture, and the black male body / / Cassandra Jackson |
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New York, : Routledge, 2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-136-90817-X |
1-136-90818-8 |
1-282-91274-7 |
9786612912740 |
0-203-84278-2 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (153 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge research in cultural and media studies ; ; 27 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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African American men in popular culture |
African American men - Violence against |
Arts, American |
Human body - Social aspects - United States |
Violence - Social aspects - United States |
Visual communication - Social aspects - United States |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [125]-131) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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, |
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