Black Bodies, White Gazes
Author | : George Yancy |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2008 |
ISBN-10 | : 0742552985 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780742552982 |
Rating | : 4/5 (982 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Black Bodies, White Gazes by : George Yancy
Download or read book Black Bodies, White Gazes written by George Yancy and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Yancy 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-conceptualizations.