Main entry:

Mirzoeff, Nicholas, 1962- author.

Title & Author:

The appearance of Black Lives Matter / Nicholas Mirzoeff.

Publication:

Miami, FL : [NAME] Publications, 2017.

Description:

1 online resource (185 pages, 2 unnumbered pages) : color illustrations

Notes:
"A limited edition print book with artwork by Carl Pope will also be released later this year."
Includes bibliographical references.
Preface -- Ouverture: Black Lives Matter -- Prefiguring appearance: from Haiti to Reconstruction and 1968 -- The space of appearance #BlackLivesMatter -- The space of nonappearance: the murder of Michael Brown -- Afterword.
Limited edition print book: Mirzoeff, Nicholas, 1962- Appearance of Black Lives Matter 9780997494037 (OCoLC)1053848319

Summary:

Police killings captured on cell-phone video or photographs have become the hallmark of United States visual culture in the twenty-first century. In this book, I examine this transformation of visual culture from the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown in the summer of 2014 to the inauguration of Donald Trump in 2017. As a person designated "white" by the color line in the United States, I do so from the perspective of anti-antiblackness. I study the formation of the space of appearance, that space where we catch a glimpse of the society that is to come--the future commons or communism. The first section analyses such spaces created by abolition democracy in Haiti, during Reconstruction and at Resurrection City in 1968. The second section considers the "persistent looking" used by Black Lives Matter protests from Ferguson on, especially "Hands Up, Don't Shoot," the die-in and the turning of backs. I then explore a simple form of visual activism, cropping photographs of crime scenes to exclude the fallen and broken bodies. It reveals the space of nonappearance, the no one's land where people die in America. In the third section, I use the archive created by the grand jury hearings into the death of Michael Brown to map this space of nonappearance and how it is sustained by white supremacy. At present, that space is imagined as co-extensive with the boundaries of the republic. I still want a space in which to appear that doesn't reproduce white supremacy, that doesn't represent a prison, in which there isn't expropriated labor, and there isn't genocide. What would that look like? This book is a toolkit for doing that imagining

Resources:
PDF

ISBN:

9780997494006 (ebook)
099749400X (ebook)

Subject:

Black lives matter movement.
African Americans Civil rights.
Racial profiling in law enforcement United States.
African Americans Social conditions 21st century.
Racism United States.
Mouvement Black Lives Matter.
Noirs américains Droits.
Profilage ethnique États-Unis.
Noirs américains Conditions sociales 21e siècle.
Racisme États-Unis.
African Americans Social conditions
Race relations
Racial profiling in law enforcement
Racism
United States Race relations.
États-Unis Relations raciales.
United States

Form/genre:

Electronic books.
Essays.