Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness

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In Dark Matters Simone Browne locates the conditions of blackness as a key website wherein surveillance is practiced, narrated, and resisted. She shows how recent surveillance technologies and practices are informed by the long history of racial formation and by the methods of policing black life below slavery, such as branding, runaway slave notices, and lantern laws. Placing surveillance studies into conversation with the archive of transatlantic slavery and its afterlife, Browne draws from black feminist theory, sociology, and cultural studies to research texts as diverse because the methods of surveilling blackness she discusses: from the design of the eighteenth-century slave ship Brooks, Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon, and The Book of Negroes, to recent art, literature, biometrics, and post-9/11 airport security practices. Surveillance, Browne asserts, is both a discursive and subject matter practice that reifies boundaries, borders, and bodies around racial lines, such a lot in order that the surveillance of blackness has long been, and remains to be, a social and political norm. 
 

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