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Paperback Humane Insight: Looking at Images of African American Suffering and Death Book

ISBN: 0252082990

ISBN13: 9780252082993

Humane Insight: Looking at Images of African American Suffering and Death

(Part of the The New Black Studies Series Series)

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In the history of black America, the image of the mortal, wounded, and dead black body has long been looked at by others from a safe distance. Courtney Baker questions the relationship between the spectator and victim and urges viewers to move beyond the safety of the "gaze" to cultivate a capacity for humane insight toward representations of human suffering. Utilizing the visual studies concept termed the "look," Baker interrogates how the notion...

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