152 Pages
by
Routledge
152 Pages
by
Routledge
152 Pages
by
Routledge
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From early photographs of disfigured slaves to contemporary representations of bullet-riddled rappers, images of wounded black men have long permeated American culture. While scholars have fittingly focused on the ever-present figure of the hypermasculine black male, little consideration has been paid to the wounded black man as a persistent cultural figure. This book considers images of... Read more
List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction 1: Early Photography and the Cultural Work of Wounds 2: Photography and the Disabled Black Subject in the Art of Carrie Mae Weems 3: Fantasies of Wounding: Black Male Bodies in Hip Hop 4: Branding Black Men: Hank Willis Thomas’s B®anded series 5: The Appropriation of Lynching Photography 6: Seeing Without Looking: Lynching in Charles W. Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition Notes Bibliography Index
Biography
Cassandra Jackson is Associate Professor of American literature at The College of New Jersey. She is the author of ‘Barriers Between Us’: Interracial Sex in 19th Century American Literature.
