Embodying Black experience : stillness, critical memory, and the Black body

Publication Data

• Title Embodying Black experience : stillness, critical memory, and the Black body
• Author Harvey Young
• Publisher University of Michigan Press
• Publication date 2010
• Publication location Ann Arbor, Mich.
• Language English

Contents

Still standing : daguerreotypes, photography, and the Black body
Between the ropes : staging the Black body in American boxing
Touching history : staging Black experience
Housing the memory of racial violence : the Black body as souvenir, museum, and living remain.

Topics

• African Americans :: Race identity
• African Americans in popular culture
• African Americans in art
• Human body :: Social aspects
• Body image :: Social aspects
• Anthropometry :: Social aspects

Embodying Black experience : stillness, critical memory, and the Black body by Harvey Young. ISBN 9780472051113. Published by University of Michigan Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.