Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness

In Dark Matters Simone Browne locates the conditions of blackness as a key site through which surveillance...
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Author: Simone Browne
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Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness by Browne, Simone

Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness

€57,87

Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness

€57,87
Author: Simone Browne
Format: Paperback
Language: English
In Dark Matters Simone Browne locates the conditions of blackness as a key site through which surveillance is practiced, narrated, and resisted. She shows how contemporary surveillance technologies and practices are informed by the long history of racial formation and by the methods of policing black life under slavery, such as branding, runaway slave notices, and lantern laws. Placing surveillance studies into conversation with the archive of transatlantic slavery and its afterlife, Browne draws from black feminist theory, sociology, and cultural studies to analyze texts as diverse as the methods of surveilling blackness she discusses: from the design of the eighteenth-century slave ship Brooks, Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon, and The Book of Negroes, to contemporary art, literature, biometrics, and post-9/11 airport security practices. Surveillance, Browne asserts, is both a discursive and material practice that reifies boundaries, borders, and bodies around racial lines, so much so that the surveillance of blackness has long been, and continues to be, a social and political norm.

Author: Simone Browne
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 10/02/2015
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780822359388


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 11/01/2015 pg. 105

About the Author
Simone Browne is Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

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