The Image of Whiteness: Contemporary Photography and Racialization Blight Daniel C.
The Image of Whiteness: Contemporary Photography and Racialization Blight Daniel C. How contemporary photographers from Hank Willis Thomas to Libita Clayton have subverted the constructions and…
Specifikacia The Image of Whiteness: Contemporary Photography and Racialization Blight Daniel C.
The Image of Whiteness: Contemporary Photography and Racialization Blight Daniel C.
How contemporary photographers from Hank Willis Thomas to Libita Clayton have subverted the constructions and complicities of whitenessFrom the advent of early colonial photography in the 19th century to contemporary "white savior" social-media images, photography continues to play an integral role in the maintenance of white sovereignty. What does whiteness look like, and how might we begin to trace an antiracist history of artistic resistance that works against it? As various scholars have shown, the technology of the camera is not innocent, and neither are the images it produces.The invention and continuation of the "white race" is not just a political, social and legal phenomenon; it is also a complexly visual one.
The Image of Whiteness seeks to introduce its reader to some important extracts from the troubling story of whiteness, to describe