Simone Browne

Dark Matters

On the Surveillance of Blackness

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Simone Browne is Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780822359197
• ISBN-10: 0822359197
• Artikelnr.: 41852484

Autorenporträt

Simone Browne is Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction, and Other Dark Matters  1
1. Notes on Surveillance Studies: Through the Door of No Return  31
2. "Everybody's Got a Little Light under the Sun": The Making of the Book
of Negroes  63
3. B®anding Blackness: Biometric Technology and the Surveillance of
Blackness  89
4. "What Did TSA Find in Solange's Fro?": Security Theater at the Airport 
131
Epilogue. When Blackness Enters the Frame  161
Notes  165
Bibliography  191
Index  203