... Carrie Mae Weems refusal hypervisibility self-possession photography ...

... black motherhood black reproduction self-possession Betye Saar Corregidora Jamaica Kincaid ...

... Chapter 2 interrogates the fraught terrain of black women’s reproductive bodies and the slave system that sought to exploit sexuality in the service of labor production. In this chapter the author argues that processes of black maternal longing limit the ability of black women to self-possess...

... Mae Weems refusal hypervisibility self-possession photography ...

... This chapter argues that affect underpins the possibility of the development of the self-possessed, liberal individual known as Man, and for this reason, scientists, writers, and reformers have scripted affect into the mechanisms of race and gender difference. This essay first turns...

... of the self-possessed, liberal individual known as Man, and for this reason, scientists, writers, and reformers have scripted affect into the mechanisms of race and gender difference. This essay first turns to the overlooked role of affect in constructing the nineteenth-century discourse of biological race...

.... The chapter offers several rereadings: first, of Dutch society at the time, with its many sites in which the women were exposed to images of black women and their sexuality; next, of racial science and its obsession with black women’s genitalia. Ultimately, the case study shows that the concepts of self...

... This chapter discusses the autobiographical genre as an illustration of the aesthetic narration of liberal emancipation, focusing on The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789), the first autobiography in English by an enslaved African, in which the self-authoring...

... engaged art practices. It focuses primarily on the work of Jacques Rancière, with a shorter discussion of Chantal Mouffe. These theorists were deployed to justify the claim that socially engaged art possess no legitimate “aesthetic” value. As such, they can play an important diagnostic role in the book’s...

... sought to critique socially engaged art practices. It focuses primarily on the work of Jacques Rancière, with a shorter discussion of Chantal Mouffe. These theorists were deployed to justify the claim that socially engaged art possess no legitimate “aesthetic” value. As such, they can play an important...

... drought; and profligate use of chemical pesticides and groundwater pumps in the late 1940s and 1950s. As a case study, it focuses on the politically well-connected técnico, former secretary of agriculture (1928–1930, 1940–1946) and self-styled Zapatista and agrarista Marte R. Gómez. It shows how he helped...

... of Japan began to wane, Nancy Seki developed a complex reservoir of self-reflexive tactics that included artistic practices as well as a sharp humor. The late Seki enacted a media theory that made heavy use of the tools of popular culture itself: critical text, an “eraser print” illustration of a TV...