Death''s Futurity - The Visual Life of Black Power

Sampada Aranke analyzes posters, photographs, journalism, and films that focus on the murders of three Black Panther Party members to examine the importance of representations of death to Black liberation.

List of contents

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction. The Visual Life of Black Power 1
1. “1,000 Bobby Huttons”  21
2. Fred Hampton and the Political Life of Objects  53
3. George Jackson’s Murder and Fugitive Imaginaries  90
Epilogue. The United States of Attica  135
Notes  147
Bibliography  171
Index  181

About the author

Sampada Aranke is Assistant Professor of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Summary

Sampada Aranke analyzes posters, photographs, journalism, and films that focus on the murders of three Black Panther Party members to examine the importance of representations of death to Black liberation.

Product details

• Authors: Sampada Aranke
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2023
• EAN: 9781478016663
• ISBN: 978-1-4780-1666-3
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Visual Arts of Africa and Its; The Visual Arts of Africa and its Diasporas
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore