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