Description |
1 online resource (xx, 276 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
"One shot" : Harris and the photographic practice of black non-iconicity -- Her own spook : colorism, vision, and the dark female body -- Excess flesh : black women performing hypervisibility -- "I am king" : Hip hop culture, fashion advertising, and the black male body -- Visible seams : the media art of Fatimah Tuggar -- Coda : The icon is dead : mourning Michael Jackson |
Summary |
Troubling Vision addresses American culture's fixation on black visibility, exploring how blackness is persistently seen as a problem in public culture and even in black scholarship that challenges racist discourse. Through trenchant analysis, Nicole R. Fleetwood reorients the problem of black visibility by turning attention to what it means to see blackness and to the performative codes that reinforce, resignify, and disrupt its meaning. Working across visual theory and performance studies, Fleetwood asks, How is the black body visualized as both familiar and disruptive? How might we investig |
Analysis |
visibility, blackness, race, racism, bias, performance, visuality, visual culture, black body, value, michael jackson, icon, fame, celebrity, fatimah tuggar, art, media, pop stars, female artists, excess flesh, charles teenie harris, photography, nonfiction, gender, representation, invisibility, hyper-visibility, spectacle, spectatorship, hip hop, music, masculinity, femininity, double vision, colorism, advertising, fashion |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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In English |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Hip Hop gnd |
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Universidad Sergio Arboleda gnd |
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African Americans in popular culture.
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African Americans -- Race identity.
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Black people -- Race identity.
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Hip-hop.
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Masculinity in popular culture.
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Femininity in popular culture.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Cultural Heritage.
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African Americans in popular culture
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African Americans -- Race identity
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Black people -- Race identity
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Femininity in popular culture
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Hip-hop
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Masculinity in popular culture
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Schwarze
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Massenkultur
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Ethnische Identität
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Geschlechterrolle
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780226253053 |
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0226253058 |
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9781283058193 |
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1283058197 |
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