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Resurrecting the black body : race and the digital afterlife

Title
Resurrecting the black body : race and the digital afterlife / Tonia Sutherland.
Author
Sutherland, Tonia, 1976-
Publication
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023]

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Alternative Title
Race and the digital afterlife
Subject
  • African Americans > Social aspects
  • Memorialization
  • Internet > Social aspects
  • African Americans > Violence against
  • Black author
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-199) and index.
Local note
  • AUTH: UCLA.
Contents
Introduction : trouble these waters -- Recording trauma -- Recording hate -- The resurrection of Henrietta Lacks -- The resurrection of Tupac Shakur -- The right to be forgotten -- The right to be remembered -- Conclusion : homegoing.
Call Number
Sc D 24-389
ISBN
  • 9780520383876
  • 0520383877
  • 9780520383869
  • 0520383869
LCCN
2023002887
OCLC
1373080135
Author
Sutherland, Tonia, 1976- author.
Title
Resurrecting the black body : race and the digital afterlife / Tonia Sutherland.
Publisher
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023]
Description
xvi, 214 pages ; 22 cm
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-199) and index.
Summary
"In Resurrecting the Black Body, Tonia Sutherland examines the consequences of digitally raising the dead. Attending to the violent deaths of Black Americans--and the records that document them--from slavery through the present, Sutherland explores media evidence, digital acts of remembering, and the rights and desires of humans to be forgotten. From the popular image of Gordon (also known as "Whipped Peter"), photographs of the lynching of Jesse Washington, and the video of George Floyd's murder to DNA, holograms, and posthumous communication, Sutherland draws on critical archival, digital, and cultural studies to make legible Black bodies and lives forever captured in cycles of memorialization and commodification. If the Black digital afterlife is rooted in historical bigotry and inspires new forms of racialized aggression, Resurrecting the Black Body asks what other visions of life and remembrance are possible, illuminating the unique ways that Black cultures have fought against the silence and erasure of oblivion"-- Provided by publisher.
Local Note
AUTH: UCLA.
Local Subject
Black author.
Other Form:
Online version: Sutherland, Tonia, 1976- Resurrecting the black body Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023] 9780520383883 (DLC) 2023002888
Research Call Number
Sc D 24-389
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