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Dark Matters - On the Surveillance of Blackness (Paperback)
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Dark Matters - On the Surveillance of Blackness (Paperback)
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In Dark Matters Simone Browne locates the conditions of blackness
as a key site through which surveillance is practiced, narrated,
and resisted. She shows how contemporary surveillance technologies
and practices are informed by the long history of racial formation
and by the methods of policing black life under slavery, such as
branding, runaway slave notices, and lantern laws. Placing
surveillance studies into conversation with the archive of
transatlantic slavery and its afterlife, Browne draws from black
feminist theory, sociology, and cultural studies to analyze texts
as diverse as the methods of surveilling blackness she discusses:
from the design of the eighteenth-century slave ship Brooks, Jeremy
Bentham's Panopticon, and The Book of Negroes, to contemporary art,
literature, biometrics, and post-9/11 airport security practices.
Surveillance, Browne asserts, is both a discursive and material
practice that reifies boundaries, borders, and bodies around racial
lines, so much so that the surveillance of blackness has long been,
and continues to be, a social and political norm.
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