TY - JOUR
T1 - "bring out your dead"
T2 - Understanding the historical persistence of the criminalization of black bodies
AU - Alexander, Bryant Keith
AU - Bey, Marquis
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 SAGE Publications.
Copyright:
Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2016/6
Y1 - 2016/6
N2 - This essay speaks to the criminalization of Black bodies via the purported "confession" of wrongdoing that Blackness makes through the interpretive White gaze. Blackness operates as a site of always imminently actualized criminality or pathology that must be quelled or eradicated. Using James Baldwin's meditation on the function of Wayne Williams's body as a historical anchor, this essay seks to articulate the contemporary ways in which Black bodies are positioned via the White gaze, as well as demonstrate the continuity of anti-Black violence, itself predicated on what Charles Mills calls an "epistemology of ignorance."
AB - This essay speaks to the criminalization of Black bodies via the purported "confession" of wrongdoing that Blackness makes through the interpretive White gaze. Blackness operates as a site of always imminently actualized criminality or pathology that must be quelled or eradicated. Using James Baldwin's meditation on the function of Wayne Williams's body as a historical anchor, this essay seks to articulate the contemporary ways in which Black bodies are positioned via the White gaze, as well as demonstrate the continuity of anti-Black violence, itself predicated on what Charles Mills calls an "epistemology of ignorance."
KW - Black bodies
KW - Epistemology of ignorance
KW - James Baldwin
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U2 - 10.1177/1532708616634773
DO - 10.1177/1532708616634773
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84968860853
VL - 16
SP - 271
EP - 277
JO - Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies
JF - Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies
SN - 1532-7086
IS - 3
ER -