Humane Insight: Looking at Images of African American Suffering and Death

by Courtney R. Baker

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252039483
• ISBN13: 9780252039485
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"