America and the Black Body

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America and the Black Body is written by Carol E. Henderson and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0838641326 (ISBN 10) and 9780838641323 (ISBN 13).

"America and the Black Body is a timely exploration into the creative, literary, and visual uses of the black body in American print and visual culture. More specifically, this volume contemplates the social development of American identity and the multifarious ways this identity coalesces in the small gestures of preclusion that establish discemable markers of national belonging. Such investigations underscore issues of power and disenfranchisement, of race, class, and gender that mediate the representations of the black male and the black female body in real and imagined ways, as it also reveals the invisible social and political ties that connect white men and women's identities to these racial imaginings." --Book Jacket.