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Visuality of violence : witnessing the policing of race /

"Ofelia Ortiz Cuevas contends that the documentation of racial violence has been an essential element of the overlapping projects of nation building, imperialism, neoliberalism, and capitalism in the United States. Cuevas focuses on works featured in Without Sanctuary (2000) and its exhibition...

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Main Author: Cuevas, Ofelia Ortiz, 1966- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, [2025]
Series:Critical race, indigeneity, and relationality.
Subjects:
Without sanctuary.
Cops (Television program : 1989- )
Minorities > Violence against > United States.
Police brutality > United States.
Lynching photography > United States.
Racism > United States.
Violence in mass media.
United States > Race relations.
Brutalités policières > États-Unis.
Racisme > États-Unis.
Violence dans les médias.
États-Unis > Relations raciales.
Electronic books.
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Discipline in the Field of Vision: Scenes of Violence in the Visual Regime
  • Part I
  • 1. The Visual Regime of Racial Discipline: Mobilizing Vision and the Racial Body
  • 2. The Red Record of Material Investment: Racial Discipline in the Mirror of History
  • Part II
  • 3. Without Sanctuary: A Moment of Opportunity
  • 4. COPS: Racial Discipline at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
  • Conclusion: The Serpent in the Garden
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index