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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814750403321

Autore

Jackson Cassandra <1972->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2010

ISBN

1-136-90817-X

1-136-90818-8

1-282-91274-7

9786612912740

0-203-84278-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (153 p.)

Collana

Routledge research in cultural and media studies ; ; 27

Disciplina

700/.452996073

Soggetti

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

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 (p. [125]-131) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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 media