Jovonna Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 3672123 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jovonna Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jovonna |
| FAMILY NAME | Jones |
| SIGNATURE | JONES J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Troubling Dignity, Seeking Truth
In this paper, I revisit the thought-world of nineteenth century black photography between two of its most important practitioners: Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass. In the history of black photography, and increasingly in Black Studies writ large, these two figures drive discourses on visuality and freedom. Typically leading with Douglass’ own lectures on pictures, we study both Douglass and Truth as figures who understood the stakes of re…
Humane Insight
Reviewed by: Humane Insight: Looking at Images of African American Suffering and Death by Courtney R. Baker Jovonna Jones Humane Insight: Looking at Images of African American Suffering and Death. By Courtney R. Baker. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2015. xx + 118 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $45.00 cloth. Humane Insight collapses the temporalities of race and violence in American memory: to see a bloated black body in a flooded New…
Troubling Dignity, Seeking Truth
In this paper, I revisit the thought-world of nineteenth century black photography between two of its most important practitioners: Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass. In the history of black photography, and increasingly in Black Studies writ large, these two figures drive discourses on visuality and freedom. Typically leading with Douglass’ own lectures on pictures, we study both Douglass and Truth as figures who understood the stakes of re…
Humane Insight
Reviewed by: Humane Insight: Looking at Images of African American Suffering and Death by Courtney R. Baker Jovonna Jones Humane Insight: Looking at Images of African American Suffering and Death. By Courtney R. Baker. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2015. xx + 118 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $45.00 cloth. Humane Insight collapses the temporalities of race and violence in American memory: to see a bloated black body in a flooded New…
Troubling Dignity, Seeking Truth
In this paper, I revisit the thought-world of nineteenth century black photography between two of its most important practitioners: Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass. In the history of black photography, and increasingly in Black Studies writ large, these two figures drive discourses on visuality and freedom. Typically leading with Douglass’ own lectures on pictures, we study both Douglass and Truth as figures who understood the stakes of re…
Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · African history and culture studies (1 work) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Dignity (1 work) · Foregrounding (1 work)