On the Surveillance of Blackness
by Simone Browne
- Author(s)
- Simone Browne
- Publication
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2015
- Scope
- 212 Pages, illustrated, 23 cm.
- ISBN
- 9780822359388
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. The surveillance of blackness has long been, and continues to be, a social and political norm.
- Keywords
- (in)equity , feminism , colonisation , racism , slavery , multiculturality , surveillance , public space
- Location
- Cabinet 11 - 4: Surveillance ; Veiligheid ; Angst
- Extra themes
- decolonize culture
- Remarks
- Incl. bibliographical references and Index.
