Surveillance, Race, Culture

Introduction.- SECTION 1: SURVEILLANT TECHNOLOGIES.- Articulating Race: Reading Skin Colour as Taxonomy and as Biodata.- Government Surveillance, Racism, and Civic Virtue in the United States.- Sampled Sirens in the City of Los Angeles: Sounding Surveillance on the Black Contemporary Film Screen.- Medical Gazing and the ‘Oprah Effect’ in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2017).- SECTION 2: SCREEN.- Images of Black Identity: Spaces in-Between.-Knowing the Double Agent: Islam, Uncertainty and the Fragility of the Surveillant Gaze in Homeland.- Allegories of Apartheid: Abjection, Torture and Surveillance in Neill Blomkamp’s District 9.- Intersectional Digital Dynamics and Racially Profiled Black Celebrities.- SECTION 3: LITERATURE, ART, PERFORMANCE, ACTION.- Let him be left to feel his way in the dark;” Frederick Douglass: White Surveillance and Dark Sousveillance.- Perceptions of Prisoners: Re/Constructing Meaning Inside the Frame of War.- Cops and Incarceration:Constructing Racial Narratives in Reality TV’s Prisons.- Pan-African Pessimism: The Man Who Cried I Am and the Limits of Black Nationalism.- We lived with death right at our backs.” Surveillance Experiences of Black Panther Party Activists.- Epilogue: Surveilling Culture.