Simone Browne

Simone Browne shows how racial ideologies and the long history of policing black bodies under transatlantic slavery structure contemporary surveillance technologies and practices. Analyzing a wide array of archival and contemporary texts, she demonstrates how surveillance reifies boundaries, borders, and bodies around racial lines.

On the Surveillance of Blackness

Dark Matters

Since its emergence, surveillance studies has been primarily concerned with how and why populations are traced, profiled, policed, and governed, and the many ways that those who are the subject of surveillance subvert, adopt, endorse, invite, resist, innovate, limit, comply with and monitor that surveillance. We Like to Watch will expand this framing of surveillance studies by focusing on race in a style and format that can be easily adopted as a required text for undergraduate courses on Surveillance, New Media, Cultural Studies, Race and Ethnicity, American Studies, and Women and Gender Studies.

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