"One shot" : Harris and the photographic practice of black non-iconicity -- Her own spook : colorism, vision, and the dark female body -- Excess flesh : black women performing hypervisibility -- "I am king" : Hip hop culture, fashion advertising, and the black male body -- Visible seams : the media art of Fatimah Tuggar -- Coda : The icon is dead : mourning Michael Jackson.
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Troubling Vision addresses American culture's fixation on black visibility, exploring how blackness is persistently seen as a problem in public culture and even in black scholarship that challenges racist discourse. Through trenchant analysis, Nicole R. Fleetwood reorients the problem of black visibility by turning attention to what it means to see blackness and to the performative codes that reinforce, resignify, and disrupt its meaning. Working across visual theory and performance studies, Fleetwood asks, How is the black body visualized as both familiar and disruptive? How might we investig.
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