Black Cultural Studies

This chapter focuses on books published in the field of black cultural studies in 2011. It is divided into two sections: 1. Visual Culture, which reviews Leigh Raiford’s Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare, Nicole Fleetwood’s Troubling Vision, John Bowles’ Adrian Piper, and Nicholas Mirzoeff’s The Right to Look; 2. Cultural and Literary Theory, which examines works on legal rituals, violence, Du Bois’ mid-century writings, African-American literary history, and post-black identity in America. The year saw historical studies in the role of photography in black social movements, representations of blackness in US visual culture, the artist Adrian Piper, and countervisuality in the context of decolonialism. Leigh Raiford’s Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare: Photography and the African-American Freedom Struggle explores, through analyses of the civil rights and black power movements, how African Americans used photography to address black political freedom struggles and resistance. Raiford states the...

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