... themselves—usually
headless or veiled images of (brown skinned, sari clad) surrogates' midsections. This chapter will draw from scholarship on ultrasonographic pregnancy surveillance and post-9/11 national surveillance practices to suggest that Western IPs are creating a cross-border cyber-nation whose...

..., “always looking at oneself through the eyes of others.” In discussing “the Veil,” the chapter follows his analysis of how racism produces white incommunicability vis-à-vis Black social worlds. Du Bois layers his texts with stylistic and generic shifts, analyzing and performing the entanglement...

... This chapter conceptualizes bareness in a contemporary context where the dialectic between seeing and being seen or unseen has defined social recognition. To analyze this new regime of civility, it looks at the recent European “veil wars.” How have the right to see and the privilege to disappear...