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Author Fleetwood, Nicole R

Title Troubling vision : performance, visuality, and blackness / Nicole R. Fleetwood
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011

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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
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SUBJECT Hip Hop gnd
Universidad Sergio Arboleda gnd
Subject African Americans in popular culture.
African Americans -- Race identity.
Black people -- Race identity.
Hip-hop.
Masculinity in popular culture.
Femininity in popular culture.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Cultural Heritage.
African Americans in popular culture
African Americans -- Race identity
Black people -- Race identity
Femininity in popular culture
Hip-hop
Masculinity in popular culture
Schwarze
Massenkultur
Ethnische Identität
Geschlechterrolle
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780226253053
0226253058
9781283058193
1283058197