The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880-1930

by Autumn Womack

Book Overview

Examining how turn-of-the-century Black cultural producers' experiments with new technologies of racial data produced experimental aesthetics.

As the nineteenth century came to a close and questions concerning the future of African American life reached a fever pitch, many social scientists and reformers approached post-emancipation Black life as an empirical problem that could be systematically solved with the help of new technologies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022680691X
• ISBN13: 9780226806914
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"