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- Title
The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880–1930 by Autumn Womack (review).
- Authors
Reckson, Lindsay
- Abstract
"The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880–1930" by Autumn Womack is a book that explores the intersection of black social life, aesthetics, and data visualization during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Womack analyzes the experimental film practices of Zora Neale Hurston and argues that they offer a radical gestural grammar of blackness that cannot be easily captured or controlled. The book also examines how black data practitioners challenged normative forms of racial knowledge and sought to represent the complexity and dynamism of black social life. Womack's interdisciplinary approach and archival recoveries provide new insights into the ways in which data has been used to document and understand black life.
- Subjects
CELL phone videos; MOTION picture theaters; BLACK Lives Matter movement; ISLAMIC architecture; VIOLENCE against Black people; CHOREOGRAPHY
- Publication
Modernism/Modernity, 2024, Vol 31, Issue 1, p177
- ISSN
1071-6068
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/mod.2024.a935453