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Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness

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In Troubling Vision, acclaimed scholar Tina Campt explores the complex and often troubled relationship between performance, visuality, and blackness. Through a series of incisive essays, Campt examines how blackness has been represented and performed in various cultural contexts, from the minstrel shows of the 19th century to the contemporary art world.

Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness

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Campt argues that blackness has historically been seen as a spectacle, something to be gazed at and consumed. This has led to a long history of commodification and exoticization of blackness, which has had a profound impact on the ways in which black people are seen and experienced in society.

In Troubling Vision, Campt challenges us to rethink the ways in which we see and experience blackness. She argues that we need to move beyond the binary of black as spectacle and black as invisible. Instead, we need to recognize the complexity and diversity of blackness, and to see black people as full and equal members of society.

Troubling Vision is a groundbreaking book that makes a major contribution to the study of race, performance, and visuality. It is a must-read for anyone who is interested in understanding the complex and often troubled relationship between blackness and representation.

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"Troubling Vision is a brilliant and groundbreaking book. Tina Campt offers a powerful critique of the ways in which blackness has been commodified and exoticized, and she challenges us to rethink the ways in which we see and experience blackness. This is a must-read for anyone who is interested in understanding the complex and often troubled relationship between race, performance, and visuality." - bell hooks, author of Ain't I a Woman?

"Troubling Vision is a major contribution to the study of race, performance, and visuality. Campt's incisive essays offer a powerful challenge to the ways in which blackness has been historically represented and consumed. This is a brilliant and necessary book." - Kobena Mercer, author of Black Skin, White Masks

About the Author

Tina Campt is a Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University. She is the author of several books, including Other Germans: Black Germans and the Politics of Race and Identity (2004) and Listening to Images (2017).

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Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness

by Nicole R. Fleetwood

4.4 out of 5