The End of the Story: Patriarchy

kimberly juanita brown’s work gathers at the intersection of literatures of the black diaspora and visual culture studies. She has been published in WSQ, Meridians, and TDR: The Drama Review. She is the author of The Repeating Body: Slavery’s Visual Resonance in the Contemporary (Duke University Press, 2015), which examines the proliferation of imagery, literary and visual, that emerges after the civil rights movement and contributes to a “failure of seeing” regarding black women’s corporeal vulnerabilities. She is currently at work on a second project examining images of the dead in the New York Times. Tentatively titled “Mortevivum: Photography and the Politics of the Visual,” this project explores photographic antiblackness and the patterns of national exclusion engendered by contemporary practices of looking.