The elasticity of the Color Line

Bibliographic Data

ID3877587
AuthorsNoa Hazan (Kibbutzim College, Israel; Sapir College, Israel, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume25
Issue1
Pages49-73
Publication date2013-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCultural Dynamics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0921-3740 • E-ISSN: 1461-7048
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0921374013490105
OpenAlexW2331507427
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited18

In light of the ongoing massive social protest that began in Israel in summer 2011, and considering the new interest in the Israeli Black Panthers protest movement marking its 40th anniversary, I wish to reexamine the press photographs of the Black Panther demonstrations taken in 1971. Studying these photographs, I argue that the visual coverage of the protest in the Israeli popular press strictly excluded the demonstrators from the Israeli public using racial signifiers. This occurred precisely during a period in which the use of racial signifiers was diminishing due to the Six Day War. I draw parallels between photographs from the 1967 War and from the Black Panther demonstrations and maintain that viewing the photographs exposes the state dialectic in handling its citizens. This dialectic moves along the axis between acceptance and rejection, identity and difference, and containment and alienation-relying on the racial visual signifier both to presence and to justify identity and difference

Aesthetics · Alienation · Art · Dialectic · Epistemology · Media studies · Parallels · Political science · Sociology · Visual culture · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Photography and Visual Culture · Public Spaces through Art · Visual Culture and Art Theory

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