Violence from Slavery to #BlackLivesMatter: African American History and Representation
- Submitting institution
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Loughborough University
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 1838
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9780367359096
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This collection seeks to inform current discussions of violence and the black community in the United States by exploring the complexities of representations of past African American suffering and resistance. Dix took the senior role in the book’s co-editing team: framing the project from its inception, unifying its contents through both the introduction and the suggestion of potential cross-references to contributors, and seeking to ensure consistency of quality by annotating multiple drafts of each essay. As well as performing this editorial work, he contributed one of the book’s chapters, which articulates historical scholarship on the one hand with film studies’ protocols of close reading of cinematic narratives and images on the other. Dix further informs his film interpretations by engaging with theories of violence deriving from the disciplines of philosophy and political science.
The contributors to this volume examine the politics, ethics and aesthetics of representations of violence in African American history from the antebellum period to #BlackLivesMatter. They employ a range of methodologies, extending from historical scholarship and archival research to close reading of literary, cinematic, photographic and musical texts. As editor, Dix was responsible for unifying these contributions around a core concern with how, in African American history, violence has signified both an instrument of the white majority’s power and a modality of black resistance. His introduction elucidates these links between the eleven contributions, as well as grounding the project in debates that are not merely of historical interest but of topical urgency.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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