Dark matters : on the surveillance of blackness /

Dark matters : on the surveillance of blackness / Simone Browne.

Show other versions (1)

Publisher's description: In Dark Matters Simone Browne locates the conditions of blackness as a key site through which surveillance is practiced, narrated, and resisted. She shows how contemporary surveillance technologies and practices are informed by the long history of racial formation and b...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Browne, Simone, 1973- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
African Americans > Social conditions.
Black people > Canada > Social conditions.
Electronic surveillance > United States.
Government information > United States.
Black people > Social conditions.
Electronic surveillance.
Government information.
Race relations.
Schwarze.
Soziale Situation.
Überwachung.
Svarta > sociala aspekter.
Afro-amerikaner > sociala aspekter.
Rasrelationer.
United States > Race relations.
Canada > Race relations.
Canada.
United States.
Nordamerika.
Förenta staterna.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction, and other dark matters
  • Notes on surveillance studies : through the door of no return
  • "Everybody's got a little light under the sun" : the making of the Book of Negroes
  • B®anding blackness : biometric technology and the surveillance of blackness
  • "What did TSA find in Solange's fro"? : security theater at the airport
  • Epilogue : when blackness enters the frame.

Similar Items