Humane Insight: Looking at Images of African American Suffering and Death (…
In the history of black America, the image of the mortal, wounded, and dead black body has long been looked at by others from a safe distance. Courtney Baker questions the relationship between the spectator and victim and urges viewers to move beyond the safety of the “gaze” to cultivate a capacity for humane insight toward representations of human suffering. Utilizing the visual studies concept termed the “look,” Baker interrogates how the notion of humanity was articulated and recognized…
ISBN 10 : 9780252097591
ISBN 13 : 0252097599
In the history of black America, the image of the mortal, wounded, and dead black body has long been looked at by others from a safe distance. Courtney Baker questions the relation..
ISBN 10 : 9789241563680
ISBN 13 : 9241563680
Presents the justification and advantages of providing mental health services in primary care. Provides advice on how to implement and scale-up primary care for mental health, and ..
ISBN 10 : 9783319334707
ISBN 13 : 3319334700
This collection investigates the social and cultural history of trauma to offer a comparative analysis of its individual, communal, and political effects in the twentieth century. ..
ISBN 10 : 9780822390404
ISBN 13 : 082239040X
Ordinary Affects is a singular argument for attention to the affective dimensions of everyday life and the potential that animates the ordinary. Known for her focus on the poetics ..
ISBN 10 : 9780300226294
ISBN 13 : 0300226292
An urgently needed examination of the current cyber revolution that draws on case studies to develop conceptual frameworks for understanding its effects on international order The ..
ISBN 10 : 0807878111
ISBN 13 : 9780807878118
Lynch mobs in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America exacted horrifying public torture and mutilation on their victims. In Lynching and Spectacle, Amy Wood explains w..
ISBN 10 : 9780226305318
ISBN 13 : 0226305317
In the late 1980s, after a decade spent engaged in more routine interest-group politics, thousands of lesbians and gay men responded to the AIDS crisis by defiantly and dramaticall..