Browne, Simone, 1973-

Dark matters : on the surveillance of blackness / Simone Browne. - Durham : Duke University Press, 2015. - ix, 213 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Simone Browne shows how racial ideologies and the long history of policing black bodies under transatlantic slavery structure contemporary surveillance technologies and practices. Analysing a wide array of archival and contemporary texts, she demonstrates how surveillance reifies boundaries, borders, and bodies around racial lines.

9780822359388 (pbk.) : £16.99 No price


African Americans--Social conditions.
Blacks--Social conditions.--Canada
Electronic surveillance--United States.
Government information--United States.
Society.


United States--Race relations.
Canada--Race relations.

E185.86 / .B76 2015

305.896073 BRO