Troubling Vision addresses American culture's fixation on black visibility, exploring how
blackness is persistently seen as a problem in public culture and even in black scholarship …

Examining the work of contemporary Black artists who are dismantling the white gaze and
demanding that we see--and see Blackness in particular--anew. In A Black Gaze, Tina …

How do we engage a contemporary visual archive of blackness that is saturated by the
proliferation and mass circulation of images of violence, antiblackness, and premature …

Performance artist and scholar E. Patrick Johnson's provocative study examines how
blackness is appropriated and performed—toward widely divergent ends—both within and …

What constitutes a practice of refusal? This article engages the practice of refusal
collaboratively articulated by the Practicing Refusal Collective, a group founded three years …

A 2008 cover of The New Yorker featured a much-discussed Black Power parody of Michelle
and Barack Obama. The image put a spotlight on how easy it is to flatten the Black Power …

In Haunted Life, David Marriott examines the complex interplay between racial fears and
anxieties and the political-visual cultures of suspicion and state terror. He compels readers …

At the close of the twentieth century, black artists began to figure prominently in the
mainstream American art world for the first time. Thanks to the social advances of the civil …

From the author of How to See the World comes a new history of white supremacist ways of
seeing—and a strategy for dismantling them. White supremacy is not only perpetuated by …

In this landmark work of critical theory, black studies, and visual culture studies, Alessandra
Raengo boldly reads race as a theory of the image. By placing emphasis on the surface of …