Troubling vision [electronic resource] : performance, visuality, and blackness / Nicole R. Fleetwood.
Fleetwood, Nicole R.
2011
E185.625 .F544 2011eb
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Title Troubling vision [electronic resource] : performance, visuality, and blackness / Nicole R. Fleetwood.
Author Fleetwood, Nicole R.
ISBN 9780226253053 (electronic book)
9780226253022
0226253023
9780226253039
0226253031
Publication Details Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xx, 276 p.) : ill.
Call Number E185.625 .F544 2011eb
Summary Troubling Vision addresses American cultures 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. Working across visual theory and performance studies, Fleetwood asks, How is the black body visualized as both familiar and disruptive? How might we investigate the black body as a troubling presence to the scopic regimes that define it as such? How is value assessed based on visible blackness? Fleetwood documents multiple forms of engagement with the visual, even as she meticulously underscores how the terms of engagement change in various performative contexts. Examining a range of practices from the documentary photography of Charles Teenie Harris to the excess flesh; performances of black female artists and pop stars to the media art of Fatimah Tuggar to the iconicity of Michael Jackson, Fleetwood reveals and reconfigures the mechanics, codes, and metaphors of blackness in visual culture.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"One shot" : Harris and the photographic practice of black non-iconicity
Her own spook : colorism, vision, and the dark female body
Excess flesh : black women performing hypervisibility
"I am king" : Hip hop culture, fashion advertising, and the black male body
Visible seams : the media art of Fatimah Tuggar
Coda : The icon is dead : mourning Michael Jackson.

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