Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of RaceBlack Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race understands Black embodiment within the context of white hegemony within the context of a racist, anti-Black world. George Yancy examines themes such as double consciousness, invisibility, and corporeal malediction that capture the lived reality of Black bodies under tremendous existential duress. He demonstrates that the Black body is a historically lived text on which whites have inscribed their projections which speak equally forcefully to whites' own self-conceptions. |
Contents
The Elevator Effect Black BodiesWhite Bodies | 1 |
Whiteness Unseen Things Seen | 33 |
The Return of the Black Body Seven Vignettes | 65 |
The Agential Black Body Resisting the Black Imago in the White Imaginary | 109 |
Exposing the Serious World of Whiteness through Frederick Douglasss Autobiographical Reflections | 141 |
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