Dark matters : on the surveillance of blackness

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Label

Dark matters : on the surveillance of blackness

Title remainder

on the surveillance of blackness

Statement of responsibility

Simone Browne

Creator

• Browne, Simone, 1973-

Author

• Browne, Simone, 1973-

Subject

• Afro-amerikaner -- sociala aspekter
• Blacks -- Canada -- Social conditions
• Blacks -- Social conditions
• Canada
• Canada -- Race relations
• Electronic surveillance
• Electronic surveillance -- United States
• Förenta staterna
• Government information
• Government information -- United States
• African Americans -- Social conditions
• Nordamerika
• Race relations
• Rasrelationer
• Schwarze
• Soziale Situation
• Svarta -- sociala aspekter
• United States
• United States -- Race relations
• Überwachung
• Kanada
• African Americans -- Social conditions

Language

eng

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"--Publisher description

Cataloging source

NcD/DLC

Dewey number

305.896/073

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

E185.86

LC item number

.B76 2015

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography