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04694aam a2200577 i 4500 001 00D2AEF6440211EF98CC15ED37ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240717010108 008 210708t20222022iluaf b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021030560 020 $a 022680691X 020 $a 9780226806914 020 $a 022680674X 020 $a 9780226806747 035 $a (OCoLC)1241244372 040 $a ICU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d YDX $d IAK $d MNN $d GSU $d OCLCL $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS173.N4 $b W66 2022 082 00 $a 810.9/896073 $2 23 100 1 $a Womack, Autumn, $e author. 245 14 $a The matter of Black living : $b the aesthetic experiment of racial data, 1880-1930 / $c Autumn Womack. 264 1 $a Chicago : $b The University of Chicago Press, $c 2022. 300 $a 270 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations (some color) ; $c 22 cm 520 $a "What did the "Negro problem," as it was called at the turn of the twentieth century, look like? Autumn Womack's study examines efforts to visualize Black social life through new technologies and disciplines-from photography and film to statistics-in the decades between 1880 and 1930. Womack describes nothing less than a "racial data revolution," one in which social scientists, reformers, and theorists rendered Black life an inanimate object of inquiry. At the very same time, Black cultural producers staged their own kind of revolution, undisciplining racial data in ways that challenged normative visual regimes and capturing the dynamism of Black social life. Womack focuses on figures like W.E.B DuBois, Kelly Miller, Sutton Griggs, and Zora Neale Hurston, as well as lesser-known editors, social reformers, and performers. She shows how they harnessed media as diverse as the social survey, the novel, the stage, and early motion pictures to reform visual practices and recalibrate the relationship between data and black life"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: Data and the matter of Black life. Undisciplining data ; The social life of racial data ; Racial data, visual revolutions ; The aesthetics of data ; Undisciplining as method ; Overview -- The social survey : the survey spirit. "The survey spirit" : origins, evolution, and the radical operations of the social survey ; "Ugly facts" and (anti)social data : Kelly Miller, the American Negro Academy, and the call for the social survey ; A book to do some good : Kelly Miller, Sutton Griggs, and the emergence of social document fiction ; Faulty surfaces, unruly eyes ; Everywhere and nowhere : the social survey's nongeography -- Photography : looking out. Seeing survival ; Deep black mourning : lynching's (anti)photographic logic ; "Let them see" : photography, performance, and reform ; Looking out : toward a new visual epistemology of survival ; Photographically hesitant : the visual politics of W. E. B. Du Bois's "Jesus Christ in Georgia" -- Film: overexposure. Beyond the frame : overexposure and Zora Hurston's Filmic Practice ; "Drenched in light" ; Recording racial feeling ; Contraband flesh ; Cinematics of Negro expression -- Coda: Racial data's afterlives. 648 7 $a 1800-1999 $2 fast 650 0 $a African Americans in literature. 650 0 $a African Americans in motion pictures. 650 0 $a African Americans in art. 650 0 $a American literature $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Motion pictures $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Photography $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a African Americans $x Social life and customs $y 19th century. 650 0 $a African Americans $x Social life and customs $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Social surveys $z United States. 650 7 $a African Americans in art. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799722 650 7 $a African Americans in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799727 650 7 $a African Americans in motion pictures. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799733 650 7 $a African Americans $x Social life and customs. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799703 650 7 $a American literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807113 650 7 $a Motion pictures. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01027285 650 7 $a Photography. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01061714 650 7 $a Social surveys. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01123390 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240717011719.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=00D2AEF6440211EF98CC15ED37ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search