| Abstrakt: |
News photographs of Black bodies, victimized in the public sphere, are well known sources of twentieth-century US historiography. However, they blot out both the violence Black women experienced, and their activism. By focusing on three women – Ida B. Wells (1862–1931), Mamie Till Mobley (1921–2003) and Diamond Reynolds (1990) – and analysing their social and visual interventions into narratives of race-based violence across 125 years, this article shows how closely entangled race-based violence and the history of the violent gaze are, and how Black women rejected the subjectifying gaze through their sophisticated use of social media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
