基本説明
Examines themes such as double consciousness, invisibility, and corporeal malediction that capture the lived reality of Black bodies under tremendous existential duress.
Full Description
Black Bodies, White Gazesunderstands 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
Foreword by Linda Martin AlcoffAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1: The Elevator Effect: Black Bodies/White BodiesChapter 2: Whiteness: "Unseen" Things SeenChapter 3: The Return of the Black Body: Seven VignettesChapter 4: The Agential Black Body: Resisting the Black Imago in the White ImaginaryChapter 5: Exposing the Serious World of Whiteness through Frederick Douglass's Autobiographical ReflectionsChapter 6: Desiring Bluest Eyes, Desiring Whiteness: The Black Body as Torn AsunderChapter 7: Whiteness as Ambush and the Transformative Power of VigilanceIndexAbout the Author