Dark Matters
On the Surveillance of Blackness
by Simone Browne
232 pages· 2015· ISBN 9780822359197
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Simone Browne shows how racial ideologies and the long history of policing black bodies under transatlantic slavery structure contemporary surveillance technologies and practices. Analyzing a wide array of archival and contemporary texts, she demonstrates how surveillance reifies boundaries, borders, and bodies around racial lines.
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