Black Bodies White Gazes

Download or read book Black Bodies, White Gazes written by George Yancy and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race understands Black embodiment within the context of white hegemony within the context of a racist, anti-Black world. Yancy demonstrates that the Black body is a historically lived text on which whites have inscribed their projections which speak equally forcefully to whites' own self-conceptualizations.