Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness

by Nicole R. Fleetwood

Book Overview

Troubling Vision addresses American culture's fixation on black visibility, exploring how blackness is persistently seen as a problem in public culture and even in black scholarship that challenges racist discourse. Through trenchant analysis, Nicole R. Fleetwood reorients the problem of black visibility by turning attention to what it means to see blackness and to the performative codes that reinforce, resignify, and disrupt its meaning...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226253031
• ISBN13: 9780226253039
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"