Black bodies, white gazes
Subtitle: the continuing significance of race
By: George Yancy.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780742552975; 9780742552982
Subjects: African Americans; Racism -- United States; United States -- Race relations
Description: "Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race understands 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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes index.