Nicole R Fleetwood
Biographic Data
| ID | 169658 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicole R Fleetwood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicole R |
| FAMILY NAME | Fleetwood |
| SIGNATURE | FLEETWOOD N R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Racial Fictions, Visual Culture, and White Nationalism
Sarah Elizabeth Lewis. The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America. Harvard University Press, 2024. 400 pp; 73 color ills.; $35 clothArt historian Sarah Elizabeth Lewis opens her layered a
On Racial Icons: Blackness and the Public Imagination
What meaning does the American public attach to images of key black political, social, and cultural figures? Considering photography’s role as a means of documenting historical progress, what is the representational currency of these images? Howdo racial icons “signify”? Nicole R. Fleetwood’s answers to these questions will change the way you think about the next photograph that you see depicting a racial event, black celebrity, or public figure.…
Posing in Prison: Family Photographs, Emotional Labor, and Carceral Intimacy
Posing in Prison" examines vernacular photography and studio portraiture taken inside US prisons through an investigation of the production practices and the circulation of these images in and out of prisons. The photographs include images that document family visits to incarcerated relatives and portraits taken by incarcerated photographers in makeshift studios designed in prison. The article considers how such photographs function as practices …
Performing Empathies: The Art of Saya Woolfalk
Performing EmpathiesThe Art of Saya Woolfalk Nicole R. Fleetwood (bio) I’m always thinking about what are the potentials for the body. What can we be? Who could we be? Who could we become? —Saya Woolfalk For more than a decade, artist Saya Woolfalk has engaged with difference and relationality as modes of becoming in various artistic projects. Known for her immersive installations of imaginary and futuristic worlds, Woolfalk’s practice is a labor…
“I am King”: Hip-Hop Culture, Fashion Advertising, and the Black Male Body
This chapter investigates how the black male body becomes the iconic figure for a consumer culture rooted in urban music, black masculine aesthetics, and nationalism. The successes of hip-hop moguls in the fashion industry has depended on their ability to signify racialized and gendered specificity through the marketing of the urban black male icon while appealing to a wide range of young consumers of various races. The success of hip-hop fashion…
Her Own Spook: Colorism, Vision, and the Dark Female Body
This chapter concentrates on colorism's deployment of vision to mark and decipher difference and value. It considers the two plays about colorism by black women playwrights—Dael Orlandersmith's Yellowman and Zora Neale Hurston's Color Struck—which were part of a tradition of work by black women that covers color/gender/class distinctions among blacks. These plays revealed how visuality is interlaced with narrative in the medium of theatre. and, i…
Visible Seams: The Media Art of Fatimah Tuggar
This chapter covers black visuality with regards to technology studies, media theory, and contemporary digital art. Fatimah Tuggar's Fusion Cuisine revealed links among historical and present notions of technological progress, racialized and gendered subjectivity, and globalization. Fusion Cuisine was her example of digital video and photomontage art that uses contemporary technology to comment upon the history of technological development. Her a…
The Case of Rihanna: Erotic Violence and Black Female Desire
This essay examines Rihanna's post-assault performances and personae, both onstage and offstage, to consider how she cultivates erotic fantasy, sexual play, and intimate attachment, despite public pressures to conform to a familiar narrative of black female victimization and survival. I write this essay out of concern with how the culture of shaming and the disciplining of desire places a stranglehold on black women's sexual experiences and explo…
Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness
Are We There Yet? Yearnings for a Discursive Shift in Black Cultural Studies
Are We There Yet?Yearnings for a Discursive Shift in Black Cultural Studies Nicole R. Fleetwood (bio) Cultural Moves: African Americans and the Politics of Representation. By Herman Gray. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. 257 pages. $50.00 (cloth). $19.95 (paper). Nuthin' But a "G" Thang: The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap. By Eithne Quinn. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. 264 pages. $66.00 (cloth). $24.00 (paper). Du…
Failing Narratives, Initiating Technologies: Hurricane Katrina and the Production of a Weather Media Event
Failing Narratives, Initiating Technologies:Hurricane Katrina and the Production of a Weather Media Event Nicole R. Fleetwood (bio) The preparation for and response to Hurricane Katrina show we are still an analog government in a digital age. We must recognize that we are woefully incapable of storing, moving, and accessing information—especially in times of crisis. Many of the problems we have identified can be categorized as "information gaps"—…
Mediating Youth
Research Article| March 01 2005 Mediating Youth: COMMUNITY-BASED VIDEO PRODUCTION AND THE POLITICS OF RACE AND AUTHENTICITY Nicole R. Fleetwood Nicole R. Fleetwood Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2005) 23 (1 (82)): 83–109. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-23-1_82-83 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Nicole R. Fleetwood; Mediating Youth: COMMUNITY-BASED VIDEO PRODUCTION…
Busing It” in the City: Black Youth, Performance, and Public Transit
In the years following the Civil Rights movement, the specter of racialized, specifically black, youth as thugs became a symbol of postindustrial anxiety and disappointment. Much of the activity of the young on mass transportation, which is interpreted as expressions of delinquency, is actually a performative engagement with adults' anxieties and with the cultural trope of urban, racialized youth as deviant
Visible Seams: Gender, Race, Technology, and the Media Art of Fatimah Tuggar
Yellowman (review)
In recent years, the delivery techniques and narrative structure of performance poetry, or spoken word, have infiltrated contemporary theatre, particularly in the works of black and Latino playwrights. This fruitful merging of performance poetry with theatre has its roots in the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement and, more recently, a new home at the Nuyorican Poets Café and at New York's Universes. In Yellowman, playwright Dael Orlan…
Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness
Posing in Prison: Family Photographs, Emotional Labor, and Carceral Intimacy
Posing in Prison" examines vernacular photography and studio portraiture taken inside US prisons through an investigation of the production practices and the circulation of these images in and out of prisons. The photographs include images that document family visits to incarcerated relatives and portraits taken by incarcerated photographers in makeshift studios designed in prison. The article considers how such photographs function as practices …
Failing Narratives, Initiating Technologies: Hurricane Katrina and the Production of a Weather Media Event
Failing Narratives, Initiating Technologies:Hurricane Katrina and the Production of a Weather Media Event Nicole R. Fleetwood (bio) The preparation for and response to Hurricane Katrina show we are still an analog government in a digital age. We must recognize that we are woefully incapable of storing, moving, and accessing information—especially in times of crisis. Many of the problems we have identified can be categorized as "information gaps"—…
The Case of Rihanna: Erotic Violence and Black Female Desire
This essay examines Rihanna's post-assault performances and personae, both onstage and offstage, to consider how she cultivates erotic fantasy, sexual play, and intimate attachment, despite public pressures to conform to a familiar narrative of black female victimization and survival. I write this essay out of concern with how the culture of shaming and the disciplining of desire places a stranglehold on black women's sexual experiences and explo…
Mediating Youth
Research Article| March 01 2005 Mediating Youth: COMMUNITY-BASED VIDEO PRODUCTION AND THE POLITICS OF RACE AND AUTHENTICITY Nicole R. Fleetwood Nicole R. Fleetwood Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2005) 23 (1 (82)): 83–109. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-23-1_82-83 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Nicole R. Fleetwood; Mediating Youth: COMMUNITY-BASED VIDEO PRODUCTION…
Yellowman (review)
In recent years, the delivery techniques and narrative structure of performance poetry, or spoken word, have infiltrated contemporary theatre, particularly in the works of black and Latino playwrights. This fruitful merging of performance poetry with theatre has its roots in the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement and, more recently, a new home at the Nuyorican Poets Café and at New York's Universes. In Yellowman, playwright Dael Orlan…
Busing It” in the City: Black Youth, Performance, and Public Transit
In the years following the Civil Rights movement, the specter of racialized, specifically black, youth as thugs became a symbol of postindustrial anxiety and disappointment. Much of the activity of the young on mass transportation, which is interpreted as expressions of delinquency, is actually a performative engagement with adults' anxieties and with the cultural trope of urban, racialized youth as deviant
Visible Seams: Gender, Race, Technology, and the Media Art of Fatimah Tuggar
Mediating Youth
Research Article| March 01 2005 Mediating Youth: COMMUNITY-BASED VIDEO PRODUCTION AND THE POLITICS OF RACE AND AUTHENTICITY Nicole R. Fleetwood Nicole R. Fleetwood Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2005) 23 (1 (82)): 83–109. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-23-1_82-83 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Nicole R. Fleetwood; Mediating Youth: COMMUNITY-BASED VIDEO PRODUCTION…
Failing Narratives, Initiating Technologies: Hurricane Katrina and the Production of a Weather Media Event
Failing Narratives, Initiating Technologies:Hurricane Katrina and the Production of a Weather Media Event Nicole R. Fleetwood (bio) The preparation for and response to Hurricane Katrina show we are still an analog government in a digital age. We must recognize that we are woefully incapable of storing, moving, and accessing information—especially in times of crisis. Many of the problems we have identified can be categorized as "information gaps"—…
Are We There Yet? Yearnings for a Discursive Shift in Black Cultural Studies
Are We There Yet?Yearnings for a Discursive Shift in Black Cultural Studies Nicole R. Fleetwood (bio) Cultural Moves: African Americans and the Politics of Representation. By Herman Gray. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. 257 pages. $50.00 (cloth). $19.95 (paper). Nuthin' But a "G" Thang: The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap. By Eithne Quinn. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. 264 pages. $66.00 (cloth). $24.00 (paper). Du…
Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness
The Case of Rihanna: Erotic Violence and Black Female Desire
This essay examines Rihanna's post-assault performances and personae, both onstage and offstage, to consider how she cultivates erotic fantasy, sexual play, and intimate attachment, despite public pressures to conform to a familiar narrative of black female victimization and survival. I write this essay out of concern with how the culture of shaming and the disciplining of desire places a stranglehold on black women's sexual experiences and explo…
“I am King”: Hip-Hop Culture, Fashion Advertising, and the Black Male Body
This chapter investigates how the black male body becomes the iconic figure for a consumer culture rooted in urban music, black masculine aesthetics, and nationalism. The successes of hip-hop moguls in the fashion industry has depended on their ability to signify racialized and gendered specificity through the marketing of the urban black male icon while appealing to a wide range of young consumers of various races. The success of hip-hop fashion…
Her Own Spook: Colorism, Vision, and the Dark Female Body
This chapter concentrates on colorism's deployment of vision to mark and decipher difference and value. It considers the two plays about colorism by black women playwrights—Dael Orlandersmith's Yellowman and Zora Neale Hurston's Color Struck—which were part of a tradition of work by black women that covers color/gender/class distinctions among blacks. These plays revealed how visuality is interlaced with narrative in the medium of theatre. and, i…
Visible Seams: The Media Art of Fatimah Tuggar
This chapter covers black visuality with regards to technology studies, media theory, and contemporary digital art. Fatimah Tuggar's Fusion Cuisine revealed links among historical and present notions of technological progress, racialized and gendered subjectivity, and globalization. Fusion Cuisine was her example of digital video and photomontage art that uses contemporary technology to comment upon the history of technological development. Her a…
Performing Empathies: The Art of Saya Woolfalk
Performing EmpathiesThe Art of Saya Woolfalk Nicole R. Fleetwood (bio) I’m always thinking about what are the potentials for the body. What can we be? Who could we be? Who could we become? —Saya Woolfalk For more than a decade, artist Saya Woolfalk has engaged with difference and relationality as modes of becoming in various artistic projects. Known for her immersive installations of imaginary and futuristic worlds, Woolfalk’s practice is a labor…
Posing in Prison: Family Photographs, Emotional Labor, and Carceral Intimacy
Posing in Prison" examines vernacular photography and studio portraiture taken inside US prisons through an investigation of the production practices and the circulation of these images in and out of prisons. The photographs include images that document family visits to incarcerated relatives and portraits taken by incarcerated photographers in makeshift studios designed in prison. The article considers how such photographs function as practices …
On Racial Icons: Blackness and the Public Imagination
What meaning does the American public attach to images of key black political, social, and cultural figures? Considering photography’s role as a means of documenting historical progress, what is the representational currency of these images? Howdo racial icons “signify”? Nicole R. Fleetwood’s answers to these questions will change the way you think about the next photograph that you see depicting a racial event, black celebrity, or public figure.…
Racial Fictions, Visual Culture, and White Nationalism
Sarah Elizabeth Lewis. The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America. Harvard University Press, 2024. 400 pp; 73 color ills.; $35 clothArt historian Sarah Elizabeth Lewis opens her layered a
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