how can we under- stand the possibility that white American viewers may have recog- nized themselves in the white-looking "other" of Du Bois's "American Negro" albums?
Quote: This is quite interesting any thoughts?
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; it is the (repressed) norm of unseen seeing. If the blackness pro- duced "through the eyes of [white] others" is itself an image of whiteness, revealing more about those who pro- duce the category than about those purportedly represented by that sign, then the self-identified white viewer must see in the violence and dismem- bering of the African American body the structures of white identity.
When seeing is not believing but instead a furthermost of the display of power and intimidation and propaganda in White Society.
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n this sense, then, Du Bois's photographs of a biracial child signal both white violence upon African American bodies and an unde- niable white desire for the black body
Quote, Aha! These pictures perhaps will that have a different lenses through the White gaze. As Seyhan gives context in their article. Perhaps the signal and history of these bodies being the product of rape and violence actually may cause the white gaze to once again see their power and reminder that they control the appearance of human being and then also gets to decide that persons place in society. It becomes maybe a cruel fetish of once again of power an desire.
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serve not only to humanize African Americans in the eyes of white
Vasqueze's point of the tailoring to White gaze. Why must a probe and visual to our lives be the stage for humanity and reconciliation. Use to define what is truth and what is not. showing us worthy amongst white society.
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. White hysteria over the "threat" of racial passing both spurred an increased fervor in racial surveil- lance at the turn of the century and marked the extent to which a long his- tory of forced racial mixing during I slavery had blurred the color line of iprivilege in a post-slavery worl
White hysteria is drawn from the white gaze no longer being able to distinguish themselves from the "other,"Blackness. This leaves a threat to culture, white purity and even what come of relationships between races producing more lines blurred and loss of purity.
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Mulatto-nes
another term given Biracial folks.
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test a racial taxonomy of identifiable (because visible) otherness
This Challenges the White gaze. Black Skin is not the only thing to subject, neglect, criminalize or vilify. Biracial folks disrupts the narrative. It may have one start to lower that gaze as it is shown that they are not to far from us in aspects of look, class, or color. Through theses photos a different story is being told. This may even be linked to the concept of White anxiety in coming to terms that Black folks my not be "other" as they say.
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cultural privilege
Aha! The privilege of purity. This acts as the White gaze because as they dictate what is seen as acceptable culture and even if culture centered around biracial folks even exist or have a place in society at that time. Being mixed with White doesn't necessarily mean the your are invited or born into that privilege.
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If discovered pass- ing (wittingly or unwittingly), a white person legally defined as African American could instantly fall not only beyond the pale of society, but also into the terrain of ("negro") criminali- ty, as one who defied the jurisdiction of "whites only."
Quote: This can speak to both Cisneros over her speaking on the struggle of her identity in society, feeling out of place, unwelcome. Being Black and White though you take on two idenities of one being superior and the other inferior you are placed in one category. Your very genes do not give you duality or privilege but rather a biological mark of a criminality You become a criminal as your make up is your self betrayal as Hartman has us investigate while Seyhan gives us a background and meaning to what america sees when someone is Black.
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Through a process of visual doubling, Du Bois's "American Negro" portraits engender a disruptive critical commentary that troubles the visual and discursive foundations of white middle-class dominance by destabilizing their oppo- sitional paradigms
Quote: I read this as by showing a duality of Black life from the the middle class, educated, scholar/artist but also the "deviant" it is considered disruptive because it breaks and creates holes in White belief that they are the only ones that are entitled to privilege to have a life of comfort, success and visibly. But Vasquez challenges that somewhat in her article by bringing up at what cost is it to the group of the oppressed. Should their lives be a poster-child for change or to create empathy for someone.
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white anxiety
Aha! interesting! I feel like this indeed the anxiety of the lose of poor but I would also claim that this is also a fear of revenge or what I like to say is White America os afraid of us "pulling a you on you." it could be that they are afraid of the Black rage. maybe not only are they afraid of the loss of power but Black enslavement and violent mistreatment of the white race. I think we can see this evident today.
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white rage
That is quite profound. What can White rage be defined as? Seems kind of out of place. What do they have to mad about? These are some questions that come up for me.
In context of the middle class african american, it maybe is a sign of advancement and maybe this causes unrest and anger because they forsee this being a bigger problem. Its the concept of what are they going want next? soon they will be in the same circles, be able to move into their communities.
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Lamenting the demise of "disci- pline" under slavery, the same writer proposed that "a substitute must be found" to ensure the "mental and moral discipline" of the African American (Winton 1414
Black Folks are to be control by any means necessary. Excessive force if necessary. Death if necessary.
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justify increasing social surveillance, segregation, and violence
Aha! This the reason for "When seeing is not believing." This is an important thought that Seyhan brings to light. This happens when the very thing that the harm is being done represent the worthiness of mistreatment they know longer become the center. For some, this may even bring sympathy for the officers not the victim. it creates this question of "What did he do to the cops" instead of why. I believe that White people have assumption that they cop feared for their life because they too would fear for theirs if in the same situation or not. The fear of Black folks are apart of White society.
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political necessity
The betterment of Black Folks in a White Society
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work against dominant, white- supremacist images of African Americans perpetuated both discur- sively and in visual media at the turn of the centur
Aha! The counter to White Supremacist image of the Black man through imagery (powerful tool). I wonder if Seyan and Vasquez would agree that the power of these photos are my have some good because it is meant to make White Narrative culture uncomfortabl?
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"The camera was the cen- tral instrument by which blacks could disprove representations of us created by white folks
Quote: This reminds me of Toni Morrison's idea of centrality. The centrality of the camera gives us the autonomy the documentation of a presence, identity in time.
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bell hooks states
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two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals
Aha. I often think it is crazy that I struggle with identity in the sense of where do I belong. Do I truly have African roots because I am the descendant of slaves or do I not have them because i am the descendant of slaves? I feel we are often the Obruni as Hartman says. However, we have these dual existence and identity through the eyes of others and consequently or selves. The identity is not our own or is it sense it equals that consequence?
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Types of American Negroes, Georgia, U.S.A. (Volumes I-III) and Negro Life in Georgia, U.S.A.
How are these types being compared to and how are they labeled? Is it thought the eyes of the individual or through the eyes of Dubios. What are his intentions with this labeling and how do the cater two and what is the consequence?
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"negro criminality
Fueling and giving justicaftion to the policing and desecration of the Black body
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therefore divided by contending images of blackness-those images produced by a racist white American culture, and those images maintained by African American indi- viduals, within African American communities.
What is classified as images that are maintained in AA communities? Are those images any different from those racist images? In modern times we often see images of black people on the news being depicted as criminals (mugshots, on the corner, gangs etc.) However I wonder if it is fair to say that some of the images that we hold "close" in our community such as rappers that rap about violence, athletes music videos,, materialism like we saw in the Ape shit video etc. Do those images, even though they are showing success, Black culture (dance, rap, style, struggles) uphold and bring comfort to White folks still represent the white imagination of dangerous, careless and uncivilized? Can Vasquez's theory/claim still apply to those images though they are presenting "Black Culture" and not bodies of the dead, the jailed or poverty.
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"sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others
This is a description of the White gaze. It is the sense of that our lives are held in the time, space and identity of White folks as the TED talk spoke on. I believe that the double conscionuous can speak on not only does it hold about was white folks think of us and therefore what society thinks of us but rather how we think of ourselves in society. Often I believe that we sub consciously or consciously compare ourselves to the White gaze. As Cisneros spoke in the Video that she felt that she did not belong among other writers or see herself as a writer because her life/identity was not represented any where around her. She was comparing herself to the White master narrative that may can cause doubt in or own success and us as an individual of color.
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