Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-131) and index.
Contents
Early photography and the cultural work of wounds -- Photography and the disabled black subject in the art of Carrie Mae Weems -- Fantasies of wounding : black male bodies in hip hop -- Branding Black men : Hank Willis Thomas's Branded series -- The appropriation of lynching photography -- Seing without looking : lynching in Charles W. Chesnutt's The marrow of tradition.