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Dark matters: on the surveillance of blackness

Racquel M. Gonzales
- 15 Mar 2016 - 
- Vol. 16, Iss: 3, pp 544-546
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In Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness, Simone Browne re-imagines the theoretical framework undergirding the interdisciplinary field of surveillance studies: "how is the frame necessaril...
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In Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness, Simone Browne re-imagines the theoretical framework undergirding the interdisciplinary field of surveillance studies: “how is the frame necessaril...

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Un/Desirable Subjects: South Asian Racialization in the Age of Terror

TL;DR: The authors examines South Asian racialization in the United States after the 9/11 attacks and proposes a comparative racialization framework, which is entangled with neo-orientalism, anti-Blackness, and settler colonialism.
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Racial Innocence: Law, Social Science, and the Unknowing of Racism in the US Carceral State

TL;DR: Racial innocence is the practice of securing blamelessness for the death-dealing realities of racial capitalism as discussed by the authors, and the legal, social scientific, and reformist mechanisms that support it are reviewed in this article.
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The duality of space: The built world of Du Bois’ double-consciousness:

TL;DR: Using Du Bois' concept of double-consciousness, the authors explores African Americans' responses to urban redevelopment strategies that undermine their claims to urban space, in a post-Katrina setting.
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Introduction: Academic Labour, Digital Media and Capitalism

TL;DR: The tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique special issue as mentioned in this paper gathers critical contributions examining universities, academic labour, digital media and capitalism, and discusses the political potentials and challenges within and beyond higher education institutions.
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A Second-Order Disaster? Digital Technologies During the COVID-19 Pandemic

TL;DR: It is argued that digital technologies and data practices in the response to COVID-19 amplify social inequalities, which are already accentuated by the pandemic, thus leading to a “second-order disaster”—a human-made disaster which further traps disadvantaged people into precarity.
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

Robert D'Amico
- 20 Jun 1978 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present La Volonté de Savoir, the methodological introduction of a projected five-volume history of sexuality, which seems to have a special fascination for Foucault: the gradual emergence of medicine as an institution, the birth of political economy, demography and linguistics as human sciences, the invention of incarceration and confinement for the control of the "other" in society (the mad, the libertine, the criminal) and that special violence that lurks beneath the power to control discourse.
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Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment

TL;DR: In this article, Patricia Hill Collins explores the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals as well as those African-American women outside academe and provides an interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black feminist thinkers as Angela Davis, bell hooks, Alice Walker, and Audre Lorde.
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Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature

Donna Haraway
TL;DR: Simians, Cyborgs and Women as mentioned in this paper is a collection of ten essays written between 1978 and 1989 by Haraway that analyzes accounts, narratives, and stories of the creation of nature, living organisms, and cyborgs.