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Humane Insight: Looking at Images of African American Suffering and Death
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  • Title Humane Insight: Looking at Images of African American Suffering and Death
  • Author Courtney R. Baker
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 160
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Illinois Press
  • Date 2015
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780252039485 / 0252039483
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.8 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Library of Congress subjects African Americans - Social conditions, Racism - United States - History - 20th
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015003808
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.896

About the author

Courtney R. Baker is an associate professor of American studies and black studies at Occidental College.
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Hardback. New. In the history of black America, the image of the mortal, wounded, and dead black body has long been looked at by others from a safe distance. Courtney Baker questions the relationship between the spectator and victim and urges viewers to move beyond the safety of the "gaze" to cultivate a capacity for humane insight toward representations of human suffering. Utilizing the visual studies concept termed the "look," Baker interrogates how the notion of humanity was articulated and recognized in oft-referenced moments within the African American experience: the graphic brutality of the 1834 Lalaurie affair; the photographic exhibition of lynching, Without Sanctuary ; Emmett Till's murder and funeral; and the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina. Contemplating these and other episodes, Baker traces how proponents of black freedom and dignity used the visual display of violence against the black body to galvanize action against racial injustice.… Read More
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