... of digital epidermalization by focusing on branding and the role of prototypical whiteness in the development of contemporary biometric information technology, such as fingerprint data, retina scans, and facial recognition. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the branding of blackness in contemporary...

... was a defensively localist reaction to pressures and uncertainties introduced by a new phase of globalization. Giving close attention to the predicaments faced by black artists in such a context, including Yinka Shonibare, Steve McQueen, and Chris Ofili, as well as organizational initiatives such as the Institute...

....” Subsequently the chapter considers Chester Himes’s discrepant engagement of America in the language of the hard-boiled tradition and the black absurd toward a reframing of noir. Textual analysis of Bill Duke’s Deep Cover (1992) examines the possibilities of genre function (noir) and the discursivity of race...

... Two videos shared on YouTube are discussed in the epilogue as a way to bring together the book’s key concerns around the question of what happens when blackness enters the frame. One video shows what happens when two people—one black and one white—test out a webcam’s automated facial tracking...

... Treva Ellison analyzes the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, the largest federal policing bill in U.S. history, to understand how the discursive production of black nonnormativity and gender nonconformity fits into the production of blackness as existing outside juridical...

... II. POLITICIZING BLACKNESS CH.6 REFASHIONING PO LITI CAL CARTOONS / COMICS OF JACKIE ORMES, 1938 1958 Kelly Jo Fulkerson- Dikuua Who will revere the black woman? . . . Who will glorify and proclaim her beautiful image? · abbey lincoln, Who Will Revere In a 1955 single- panel comic run...

...CH.8 STYLING AND PROFILING / BALLERS, BLACKNESS, AND THE SARTORIAL POLITICS OF THE NBA David J. Leonard Each year, with the arrival of the National Basketball Associa- tion (nba) playoffs, comes a heightened level of scrutiny for the players shot se lection, defensive effort, and sartorial choices...

... III. OWNING BLACKNESS CH.10 THE SUBALTERN IS SIGNIFYIN(G) / BLACK TWITTER AS A SITE OF RE SIS TANCE Sheneese Thompson @Deray: Twitter is home. Facebook is grandma s house. Snapchat is your best friend s house. Tumblr is the lunch room. Instagram is 24/7 prom. · Tweeted by the user on November 8...

... IV. LOVING BLACKNESS CH.15 THE BOOTY DON T LIE / PLEA SURE, AGENCY, AND RE SIS TANCE IN BLACK POPU LAR DANCE Takiyah Nur Amin And the booty will always tell the truth of a given situation. You can always tell what a community or a person truly believes by studying the actions of their booties...

... to meet up with former college roommates, but neither her mother nor 7 Affective Inequalities Childcare Workers and Elite Consumptions of Blackness 186 Chapter Seven her mother- in- law could stay with her kids. Other than for the occasional in- formal baby sitting that Maribel s Dominican maid provided...