Title Dark matters : on the surveillance of blackness / Simone Browne

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2015 ©2015

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 213 pages) : illustrations Contents Introduction, and other dark matters -- Notes on surveillance studies : through the door of no return -- "Everybody's got a little light under the sun" : the making of the Book of Negroes -- B®anding blackness : biometric technology and the surveillance of blackness -- "What did TSA find in Solange's fro'? : security theater at the airport -- Epilogue : when blackness enters the frame Summary 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 Analysis Discrimination in government surveillance Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-202) 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 English digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject African Americans -- Social conditions. Black people -- Canada -- Social conditions Electronic surveillance -- United States Government information -- United States Racism against Black people -- United States Racism against Black people -- Canada SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. Racism against Black people Black people -- Social conditions African Americans -- Social conditions Electronic surveillance Government information Race relations Schwarze Soziale Situation Überwachung Svarta -- sociala aspekter. Afro-amerikaner -- sociala aspekter. Rasrelationer. SUBJECT United States -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494 Canada -- Race relations Subject Canada United States Nordamerika Form Electronic book ISBN 9780822375302 0822375303

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