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Record Nr.

UNINA9910861976603321

Autore

Page Allison

Titolo

Media and the affective life of slavery / / Allison Page

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2022

©2022

ISBN

1-4529-6491-2

1-4529-6490-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (196 pages)

Disciplina

305.8

Soggetti

Slavery in mass media

Race in mass media

Popular culture

Mass media and minorities

Mass media

Emotions - Social aspects

Popular culture - United States - History - 21st century

Mass media - United States - History - 21st century

Mass media and minorities - United States

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction. Racial formation and post-civil rights governance -- "The restless Black peril": race, television documentary, and emotion -- Feeling slavery: Roots and pedagogies of emotion -- Choosing freedom: empathy and agency -- "How many slaves work for you? algorithmic governance and guilt -- Conclusion. Refusing prescription: Kara Walker and Black feminist cultural production.

Sommario/riassunto

"Allison Page examines U.S. media from the 1960s to today and delivers vital new ideas about how our feelings about race are governed and normalized by our media landscape. Media and the Affective Life of Slavery argues that visual culture works through emotion, a powerful lever for shaping and managing racialized subjectivity"--