André Brock Jr.
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781479820375
- eISBN:
- 9781479811908
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479820375.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This chapter presents the three conceptual pillars for the analysis used throughout the book. These are explorations into identity as a tension between self and the social, Black bodies and ...
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This chapter presents the three conceptual pillars for the analysis used throughout the book. These are explorations into identity as a tension between self and the social, Black bodies and Blackness, and technology as text. These three form the epistemological grounding for critical technocultural discourse analysis, which is the method used across every chapter in this text.Less
This chapter presents the three conceptual pillars for the analysis used throughout the book. These are explorations into identity as a tension between self and the social, Black bodies and Blackness, and technology as text. These three form the epistemological grounding for critical technocultural discourse analysis, which is the method used across every chapter in this text.
Lynn M. Hudson
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780252043345
- eISBN:
- 9780252052224
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252043345.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
This chapter examines the history of California’s commitment to Jim Crow, a history that begins during the state’s earliest years. African Americans loomed large in the minds of California’s earliest ...
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This chapter examines the history of California’s commitment to Jim Crow, a history that begins during the state’s earliest years. African Americans loomed large in the minds of California’s earliest legislators and politicians. Black codes became a prominent feature of the state’s legal system and developed in tandem with scientific racism. Black bodies as a site of difference became a staple of the public discourse of citizenship. Resistance to the state’s color line took place at parades, in court, in schools, on streetcars, and on stage, all places African Americans were discouraged or prohibited from occupying. Gendered politics infused this first western campaign for civil rights and women’s participation would be pivotal in the ongoing struggle for racial justice.Less
This chapter examines the history of California’s commitment to Jim Crow, a history that begins during the state’s earliest years. African Americans loomed large in the minds of California’s earliest legislators and politicians. Black codes became a prominent feature of the state’s legal system and developed in tandem with scientific racism. Black bodies as a site of difference became a staple of the public discourse of citizenship. Resistance to the state’s color line took place at parades, in court, in schools, on streetcars, and on stage, all places African Americans were discouraged or prohibited from occupying. Gendered politics infused this first western campaign for civil rights and women’s participation would be pivotal in the ongoing struggle for racial justice.
C. Kemal Nance
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780252042959
- eISBN:
- 9780252051814
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252042959.003.0015
- Subject:
- Music, Dance
C. Kemal Nance reflects on the ways in which African American men utilize dance vocabularies in artistic and academic work. He reveals his findings through his own experiences as an African dance ...
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C. Kemal Nance reflects on the ways in which African American men utilize dance vocabularies in artistic and academic work. He reveals his findings through his own experiences as an African dance performer, as well as through a series of interviews with Baba Chuck Davis. Centering an analysis of gender and sexuality, Nance explores the scripted nature of these discourses while addressing the ideological implications of historical representations of the black male body, masculinity, and heteronormativity in the field of African dance in the United States.Less
C. Kemal Nance reflects on the ways in which African American men utilize dance vocabularies in artistic and academic work. He reveals his findings through his own experiences as an African dance performer, as well as through a series of interviews with Baba Chuck Davis. Centering an analysis of gender and sexuality, Nance explores the scripted nature of these discourses while addressing the ideological implications of historical representations of the black male body, masculinity, and heteronormativity in the field of African dance in the United States.
Edward E. Curtis
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807830543
- eISBN:
- 9781469606088
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807877449_curtis.8
- Subject:
- Religion, Religious Studies
The challenge of bodily safety is a key concern in African American culture. Members of the Nation of Islam (NOI) also have a high regard for protecting and civilizing the black body, and argue that ...
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The challenge of bodily safety is a key concern in African American culture. Members of the Nation of Islam (NOI) also have a high regard for protecting and civilizing the black body, and argue that the practice of Islam could heal the body physically and spiritually. This chapter explores NOI's ethical discourse on the body. It examines how members of NOI attempted to purify their body by changing their diet, clothes, hairstyle, and sexual behaviors.Less
The challenge of bodily safety is a key concern in African American culture. Members of the Nation of Islam (NOI) also have a high regard for protecting and civilizing the black body, and argue that the practice of Islam could heal the body physically and spiritually. This chapter explores NOI's ethical discourse on the body. It examines how members of NOI attempted to purify their body by changing their diet, clothes, hairstyle, and sexual behaviors.
Erika D. Gault
- Published in print:
- 2022
- Published Online:
- May 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781479805815
- eISBN:
- 9781479805839
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479805815.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
Female creatives like Jackie Hill-Perry have leveraged spoken word, largely rooted in Black performance practices to speak openly online about a range of body-centered topics. This chapter explores, ...
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Female creatives like Jackie Hill-Perry have leveraged spoken word, largely rooted in Black performance practices to speak openly online about a range of body-centered topics. This chapter explores, through the life and ministry of Jackie Hill-Perry, how creatives take on or “wear” hip hop in physically located and online spaces as a way of working out bodily dissonance. A certain sexual intimacy at the root of their styles of dress undergirded the attempts of both Juanita Bynum and Hill-Perry at making the Black female body visible. This chapter answers the question: how is the digital Black Christian female body materially presented and read by female creatives? Two examples of secondary blackness—the prioritizing of other identities over race—in Hill-Perry’s spoken-word poems on YouTube triangulated with her rap lyrics and her autobiography are used to answer this question.Less
Female creatives like Jackie Hill-Perry have leveraged spoken word, largely rooted in Black performance practices to speak openly online about a range of body-centered topics. This chapter explores, through the life and ministry of Jackie Hill-Perry, how creatives take on or “wear” hip hop in physically located and online spaces as a way of working out bodily dissonance. A certain sexual intimacy at the root of their styles of dress undergirded the attempts of both Juanita Bynum and Hill-Perry at making the Black female body visible. This chapter answers the question: how is the digital Black Christian female body materially presented and read by female creatives? Two examples of secondary blackness—the prioritizing of other identities over race—in Hill-Perry’s spoken-word poems on YouTube triangulated with her rap lyrics and her autobiography are used to answer this question.
Stephen J. Blundell and Katherine M. Blundell
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199562091
- eISBN:
- 9780191718236
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199562091.003.0023
- Subject:
- Physics, Particle Physics / Astrophysics / Cosmology
This chapter considers the thermodynamics of electromagnetic radiation. It begins by discussing spectral energy density, Kirchoff's law, radiation pressure, and the statistical mechanics of the ...
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This chapter considers the thermodynamics of electromagnetic radiation. It begins by discussing spectral energy density, Kirchoff's law, radiation pressure, and the statistical mechanics of the photon gas, respectively. It then goes on to cover the statistical mechanics of the photon gas and black-body distribution. The final sections concern the thermal radiation that exists in the Universe as a remnant of the hot big bang and the effect of thermal radiation on the behaviour of atoms, and hence the operation of the laser.Less
This chapter considers the thermodynamics of electromagnetic radiation. It begins by discussing spectral energy density, Kirchoff's law, radiation pressure, and the statistical mechanics of the photon gas, respectively. It then goes on to cover the statistical mechanics of the photon gas and black-body distribution. The final sections concern the thermal radiation that exists in the Universe as a remnant of the hot big bang and the effect of thermal radiation on the behaviour of atoms, and hence the operation of the laser.
Lynn M. Hudson
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780252043345
- eISBN:
- 9780252052224
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252043345.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
This book follows California’s history of segregation from statehood to the beginning of the long civil rights movement, arguing that the state innovated methods to control and contain African ...
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This book follows California’s history of segregation from statehood to the beginning of the long civil rights movement, arguing that the state innovated methods to control and contain African Americans and other people of color. While celebrated in popular discourse for its forward-thinking culture, politics, and science, California also pioneered new ways to keep citizenship white. Schools, streetcars, restaurants, theaters, parks, beaches, and pools were places of contestation where the presence of black bodies elicited forceful responses from segregationists. Black Californians employed innovative measures to dismantle segregation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; they borrowed some tactics from race rebels in the South, others they improvised. West of Jim Crow uses California to highlight the significance of African American resistance to racial restrictions in places often deemed marginal to mainstream civil rights histories. Examining segregation in the state sheds light on the primacy of gender and sexuality in the minds of segregationists and the significance of black women, black bodies, and racial science, in the years preceding the modern civil rights struggle. California has much to teach us about the lives of African Americans who crossed the color line and the variety of tactics and strategies employed by freedom fighters across the United States.Less
This book follows California’s history of segregation from statehood to the beginning of the long civil rights movement, arguing that the state innovated methods to control and contain African Americans and other people of color. While celebrated in popular discourse for its forward-thinking culture, politics, and science, California also pioneered new ways to keep citizenship white. Schools, streetcars, restaurants, theaters, parks, beaches, and pools were places of contestation where the presence of black bodies elicited forceful responses from segregationists. Black Californians employed innovative measures to dismantle segregation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; they borrowed some tactics from race rebels in the South, others they improvised. West of Jim Crow uses California to highlight the significance of African American resistance to racial restrictions in places often deemed marginal to mainstream civil rights histories. Examining segregation in the state sheds light on the primacy of gender and sexuality in the minds of segregationists and the significance of black women, black bodies, and racial science, in the years preceding the modern civil rights struggle. California has much to teach us about the lives of African Americans who crossed the color line and the variety of tactics and strategies employed by freedom fighters across the United States.
Donnie McMahand and Kevin L. Murphy
Harriet Pollack (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781496826145
- eISBN:
- 9781496826190
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496826145.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
Focusing first on Welty’s “A Worn Path” then Morrison’s Home, this chapter discusses the authors’ treatment of landscape, which reverberates with lingering touches of racialized violence and trauma, ...
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Focusing first on Welty’s “A Worn Path” then Morrison’s Home, this chapter discusses the authors’ treatment of landscape, which reverberates with lingering touches of racialized violence and trauma, and identifies how black characters read and decode its various evocations. The characters’ ability to recognize trees as signposts of the lynched black male body demonstrates a political consciousness necessary for their survival. Trees in these works figure as totems of death and destruction and as potent life-forces, pointing expectantly toward survival and regeneration. Shifting from figurative burial to affirmative acts of intrusion and trespass, these texts’ protagonists defy the forces of immobilization and the stereotypical images of southern black women depicted in earlier pastoral formations. Ultimately, this chapter argues that Welty and Morrison reorient the apocalyptic visioning of the antipastoral by bending the arc toward resilience and resurrection, permitting their terrain to appear mutably as bleak and beautiful, frightening and futurist.Less
Focusing first on Welty’s “A Worn Path” then Morrison’s Home, this chapter discusses the authors’ treatment of landscape, which reverberates with lingering touches of racialized violence and trauma, and identifies how black characters read and decode its various evocations. The characters’ ability to recognize trees as signposts of the lynched black male body demonstrates a political consciousness necessary for their survival. Trees in these works figure as totems of death and destruction and as potent life-forces, pointing expectantly toward survival and regeneration. Shifting from figurative burial to affirmative acts of intrusion and trespass, these texts’ protagonists defy the forces of immobilization and the stereotypical images of southern black women depicted in earlier pastoral formations. Ultimately, this chapter argues that Welty and Morrison reorient the apocalyptic visioning of the antipastoral by bending the arc toward resilience and resurrection, permitting their terrain to appear mutably as bleak and beautiful, frightening and futurist.
Thomas F. DeFrantz
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195301717
- eISBN:
- 9780199850648
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195301717.003.0009
- Subject:
- Music, Dance
This chapter examines the issues of gender and spectatorship in Alvin Ailey's concert dances. Though Ailey's dances generally suggest an egalitarian configuration of female and male physical ...
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This chapter examines the issues of gender and spectatorship in Alvin Ailey's concert dances. Though Ailey's dances generally suggest an egalitarian configuration of female and male physical presence, they seldom privilege male over female bodies in terms of either technical challenge or stage time. His works consistently encouraged gay male spectatorship in its varied depictions of glamorous masculinity and presentation of black bodies in heightened states of grace.Less
This chapter examines the issues of gender and spectatorship in Alvin Ailey's concert dances. Though Ailey's dances generally suggest an egalitarian configuration of female and male physical presence, they seldom privilege male over female bodies in terms of either technical challenge or stage time. His works consistently encouraged gay male spectatorship in its varied depictions of glamorous masculinity and presentation of black bodies in heightened states of grace.
Lynn M. Hudson
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780252043345
- eISBN:
- 9780252052224
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252043345.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
The introduction uses Ruby McKnight Williams’s story after her arrival in California in the 1930s to present the themes and arguments of the book. Williams’s shock at the extent of segregation in her ...
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The introduction uses Ruby McKnight Williams’s story after her arrival in California in the 1930s to present the themes and arguments of the book. Williams’s shock at the extent of segregation in her new home aligned with the experience of other black migrants and the introduction places her history in the context of black migration to the state in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. An overview of Jim Crow’s genesis during the era of statehood and the Gold Rush is followed by a discussion of African American resistance and the ways black bodies refused to follow the dictates of segregation. Organized resistance to black codes and antiblack practices put black Californians at the center of the state’s—and sometimes the nation’s—contestations over Jim Crow. An overview of the chapters is included.Less
The introduction uses Ruby McKnight Williams’s story after her arrival in California in the 1930s to present the themes and arguments of the book. Williams’s shock at the extent of segregation in her new home aligned with the experience of other black migrants and the introduction places her history in the context of black migration to the state in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. An overview of Jim Crow’s genesis during the era of statehood and the Gold Rush is followed by a discussion of African American resistance and the ways black bodies refused to follow the dictates of segregation. Organized resistance to black codes and antiblack practices put black Californians at the center of the state’s—and sometimes the nation’s—contestations over Jim Crow. An overview of the chapters is included.
A. J. Leggett
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199211241
- eISBN:
- 9780191706837
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199211241.003.0003
- Subject:
- Physics, Particle Physics / Astrophysics / Cosmology
This chapter starts by emphasizing that we can construct a picture of the universe as a whole only by extrapolating the laws of physics as we know them on earth to conditions almost unimaginably ...
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This chapter starts by emphasizing that we can construct a picture of the universe as a whole only by extrapolating the laws of physics as we know them on earth to conditions almost unimaginably different from those prevailing here. It then reviews the information we can get from optical and other observations, and the picture of the current universe and its contents which emerges from it, with a discussion inter alia of the cosmic distance scale and the cosmological red shift. The ideas of special and general relativity are sketched, and some consequences such as gravitational radiation and black holes are discussed; possible futures of the universe are considered. Finally, it is indicated how extrapolation of the equations of general relativity into the past leads inexorably to the idea of a “hot big bang”.Less
This chapter starts by emphasizing that we can construct a picture of the universe as a whole only by extrapolating the laws of physics as we know them on earth to conditions almost unimaginably different from those prevailing here. It then reviews the information we can get from optical and other observations, and the picture of the current universe and its contents which emerges from it, with a discussion inter alia of the cosmic distance scale and the cosmological red shift. The ideas of special and general relativity are sketched, and some consequences such as gravitational radiation and black holes are discussed; possible futures of the universe are considered. Finally, it is indicated how extrapolation of the equations of general relativity into the past leads inexorably to the idea of a “hot big bang”.
Andrea Stone
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780813062570
- eISBN:
- 9780813051604
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813062570.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, African-American Literature
Emulating more the conventions of the almanac than those of wildly popular early- to mid-nineteenth-century emigration narratives authored by British émigrés to Canada, Mary Ann Shadd and Martin ...
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Emulating more the conventions of the almanac than those of wildly popular early- to mid-nineteenth-century emigration narratives authored by British émigrés to Canada, Mary Ann Shadd and Martin Delany urge black evacuation through a claim for black health and well-being, vivifying the crucial relation they see between corporeal and political ideals. Each advocates the connection between a healthy black body and black political independence, irreconcilable with U.S. residency. Their quest for and designation of healthful places of settlement draw from classical Greek characterizations, which idealize hygia. Such an ideal forms the primary vehicle for their propaganda.Less
Emulating more the conventions of the almanac than those of wildly popular early- to mid-nineteenth-century emigration narratives authored by British émigrés to Canada, Mary Ann Shadd and Martin Delany urge black evacuation through a claim for black health and well-being, vivifying the crucial relation they see between corporeal and political ideals. Each advocates the connection between a healthy black body and black political independence, irreconcilable with U.S. residency. Their quest for and designation of healthful places of settlement draw from classical Greek characterizations, which idealize hygia. Such an ideal forms the primary vehicle for their propaganda.
Anthony B. Pinn
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814767740
- eISBN:
- 9780814768518
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814767740.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter discusses the troubled nature of identity as “blackness.” It raises questions concerning how notions of identity, framed and embedded in black theological discourse as “blackness,” have ...
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This chapter discusses the troubled nature of identity as “blackness.” It raises questions concerning how notions of identity, framed and embedded in black theological discourse as “blackness,” have served to privilege the black male body by assuming the re-presentation and re-construction of that male body meet the liberation needs of all black bodies. Of concern is the manner in which this formulation of the (assumed male) black body hampers a full understanding of complex subjectivity as the shape of religious encounter because it fails to consider a sufficient range of the ways in which African Americans are dehumanized.Less
This chapter discusses the troubled nature of identity as “blackness.” It raises questions concerning how notions of identity, framed and embedded in black theological discourse as “blackness,” have served to privilege the black male body by assuming the re-presentation and re-construction of that male body meet the liberation needs of all black bodies. Of concern is the manner in which this formulation of the (assumed male) black body hampers a full understanding of complex subjectivity as the shape of religious encounter because it fails to consider a sufficient range of the ways in which African Americans are dehumanized.
Jasmine Nichole Cobb
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781479817221
- eISBN:
- 9781479830619
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479817221.003.0007
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
This book explores how Black people appearing in early daguerreotypes reimagined and reconstructed Black visuality removed from the cultural logics of slavery. It explains how the daguerreotype ...
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This book explores how Black people appearing in early daguerreotypes reimagined and reconstructed Black visuality removed from the cultural logics of slavery. It explains how the daguerreotype became a means to create distance between freedom and slavery's mediation of Blackness, and as tools of “critical black memory.” It analyzes modes of picturing Black freedom before the Civil War and before the daguerreotype to trace its emergence in the transatlantic imaginary. It shows how picturing freedom before the advent of photographic technologies reorganized Black visuality, repositioning Black people within the conceptual space of the Atlantic world. It also discusses efforts to imagine both Black men and Black women as free in the context of slavery, with particular emphasis on “the black female body and the gaze.” Finally, it locates diverse conceptions of Black freedom in the transatlantic parlor as a place for dissimilar groups of people and cultural producers to convene around visions of Blackness separated from slavery.Less
This book explores how Black people appearing in early daguerreotypes reimagined and reconstructed Black visuality removed from the cultural logics of slavery. It explains how the daguerreotype became a means to create distance between freedom and slavery's mediation of Blackness, and as tools of “critical black memory.” It analyzes modes of picturing Black freedom before the Civil War and before the daguerreotype to trace its emergence in the transatlantic imaginary. It shows how picturing freedom before the advent of photographic technologies reorganized Black visuality, repositioning Black people within the conceptual space of the Atlantic world. It also discusses efforts to imagine both Black men and Black women as free in the context of slavery, with particular emphasis on “the black female body and the gaze.” Finally, it locates diverse conceptions of Black freedom in the transatlantic parlor as a place for dissimilar groups of people and cultural producers to convene around visions of Blackness separated from slavery.
Matthew Pratt Guterl
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781469610689
- eISBN:
- 9781469612522
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469610689.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
This chapter shows that, long after slavery, it is common to see the black body not merely as evidence of humanity but also as an object, and as a metaphor for other objects, so that the desirable ...
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This chapter shows that, long after slavery, it is common to see the black body not merely as evidence of humanity but also as an object, and as a metaphor for other objects, so that the desirable and raced body is densely related to the symbolic surround of American consumer culture. To visualize blackness, then, is to strangely conflate blackness and a product, a bauble, or an object that we desperately desire. Indeed, inasmuch as the postemancipation desire for the black body connoted—and continues to connote—a desire for the presumably stable relations of slavery, the love of blackness as a medium for advertisement also breathes life, as we understand it, into the otherwise static and disembodied world of things. To see the black body as a commodity, then, is to see race in a very particular way, to make use of a very unusual, very long lived sightline.Less
This chapter shows that, long after slavery, it is common to see the black body not merely as evidence of humanity but also as an object, and as a metaphor for other objects, so that the desirable and raced body is densely related to the symbolic surround of American consumer culture. To visualize blackness, then, is to strangely conflate blackness and a product, a bauble, or an object that we desperately desire. Indeed, inasmuch as the postemancipation desire for the black body connoted—and continues to connote—a desire for the presumably stable relations of slavery, the love of blackness as a medium for advertisement also breathes life, as we understand it, into the otherwise static and disembodied world of things. To see the black body as a commodity, then, is to see race in a very particular way, to make use of a very unusual, very long lived sightline.
Stefano Atzeni and JÜrgen Meyer-Ter-Vehn
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- January 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780198562641
- eISBN:
- 9780191714030
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198562641.003.0009
- Subject:
- Physics, Nuclear and Plasma Physics
Hohlraum targets are a special class of ICF targets, in which capsule ablation is driven by the thermal radiation inside a cavity, the so-called hohlraum. In this scheme, the laser or ion beams do ...
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Hohlraum targets are a special class of ICF targets, in which capsule ablation is driven by the thermal radiation inside a cavity, the so-called hohlraum. In this scheme, the laser or ion beams do not drive the capsule directly, and one therefore calls it indirect drive. Expressions for X-ray conversion efficiency are derived for incident laser and ion beams. Radiation confinement inside the cavity is discussed in terms of the wall albedo, which measures the re-emission of absorbed radiation by the heated wall. The radiative transfer between the walls is treated approximately by means of the viewfactor method. Simple estimates are derived for the hohlraum temperature of the black-body radiation. Simulations of radiatively driven implosions are presented in the context of targets for ion beam fusion.Less
Hohlraum targets are a special class of ICF targets, in which capsule ablation is driven by the thermal radiation inside a cavity, the so-called hohlraum. In this scheme, the laser or ion beams do not drive the capsule directly, and one therefore calls it indirect drive. Expressions for X-ray conversion efficiency are derived for incident laser and ion beams. Radiation confinement inside the cavity is discussed in terms of the wall albedo, which measures the re-emission of absorbed radiation by the heated wall. The radiative transfer between the walls is treated approximately by means of the viewfactor method. Simple estimates are derived for the hohlraum temperature of the black-body radiation. Simulations of radiatively driven implosions are presented in the context of targets for ion beam fusion.
Adrienne D. Davis and BSE Collective (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780252042645
- eISBN:
- 9780252051494
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252042645.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
This book is a compilation of contemporary and previously unpublished scholarship on Black sexualities. The sixteen essays work to untangle the complex mechanisms of dominance and subordination as ...
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This book is a compilation of contemporary and previously unpublished scholarship on Black sexualities. The sixteen essays work to untangle the complex mechanisms of dominance and subordination as they are attached to political and socioeconomic forces, cultural productions, and academic lenses that assess sexuality as it intersects with race. Some of the essays trace the historical and contemporary markets for sexual labor and systems of erotic capital. Other essays illuminate how forces of commodification, exploitation, and appropriation, which render black sexualities both desirable and deviant, also provide the spaces, networks, and relationships that have allowed black people to revise, recuperate, and re-articulate their sexual identities, erotic capital, and gender and sexual expressions and relations. The collection focuses on three themes linked by the major theory of black sexual economy: sex labor and race play; drag and hypersexual performance; and the erotics of life and death.Less
This book is a compilation of contemporary and previously unpublished scholarship on Black sexualities. The sixteen essays work to untangle the complex mechanisms of dominance and subordination as they are attached to political and socioeconomic forces, cultural productions, and academic lenses that assess sexuality as it intersects with race. Some of the essays trace the historical and contemporary markets for sexual labor and systems of erotic capital. Other essays illuminate how forces of commodification, exploitation, and appropriation, which render black sexualities both desirable and deviant, also provide the spaces, networks, and relationships that have allowed black people to revise, recuperate, and re-articulate their sexual identities, erotic capital, and gender and sexual expressions and relations. The collection focuses on three themes linked by the major theory of black sexual economy: sex labor and race play; drag and hypersexual performance; and the erotics of life and death.
Samantha Pinto
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814759486
- eISBN:
- 9780814789360
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814759486.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
This chapter examines Elizabeth Alexander’s The Venus Hottentot and Deborah Richards Last One Out—both of which reference black popular cultural figures such as Saartjie Baartman to remap the ...
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This chapter examines Elizabeth Alexander’s The Venus Hottentot and Deborah Richards Last One Out—both of which reference black popular cultural figures such as Saartjie Baartman to remap the difficult genealogy of black corporeality. These collections consider and critique models of diasporic subject formation that lean on example, exception, and recovery, creating instead a network of compromised affiliations and cosmopolitan desires that acknowledge both the pleasures and dangers of representation. Tracing a range of alternative ways to engage the vexed black body through its very visible global circulation, Alexander and Richards reorder the legacies of iconic raced and gendered representations; hence, establishing new genealogy of black women's bodies in innovative form.Less
This chapter examines Elizabeth Alexander’s The Venus Hottentot and Deborah Richards Last One Out—both of which reference black popular cultural figures such as Saartjie Baartman to remap the difficult genealogy of black corporeality. These collections consider and critique models of diasporic subject formation that lean on example, exception, and recovery, creating instead a network of compromised affiliations and cosmopolitan desires that acknowledge both the pleasures and dangers of representation. Tracing a range of alternative ways to engage the vexed black body through its very visible global circulation, Alexander and Richards reorder the legacies of iconic raced and gendered representations; hence, establishing new genealogy of black women's bodies in innovative form.
Sandy Alexandre
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781617036651
- eISBN:
- 9781621030423
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781617036651.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
In August 1955, fourteen-year-old Emmett Till, an African American, was lynched to death by two white men in Mississippi after he wolf whistled at a white woman. The story of Till’s lynching, along ...
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In August 1955, fourteen-year-old Emmett Till, an African American, was lynched to death by two white men in Mississippi after he wolf whistled at a white woman. The story of Till’s lynching, along with the gruesome photographs of his terribly bloated corpse and mangled face, attracted national attention. This chapter examines the story of Emmett Till and how his murder subverts the whole dynamic of lynching and lynching photography. It analyzes the dynamics of lynching by focusing on Till’s lynched black body that was displayed publicly by blacks against the wishes of the white lynchers. It argues that the images of a propertied and domesticated Till show him to be part of a community, in stark contrast to the usual lynching photo. It also considers how traumatic events are projected onto the landscape, whereby human deeds are metaphorically blended into the very geography of the land. Finally, it comments on how scholars ignore the life Till lived in Chicago before he perished in Mississippi.Less
In August 1955, fourteen-year-old Emmett Till, an African American, was lynched to death by two white men in Mississippi after he wolf whistled at a white woman. The story of Till’s lynching, along with the gruesome photographs of his terribly bloated corpse and mangled face, attracted national attention. This chapter examines the story of Emmett Till and how his murder subverts the whole dynamic of lynching and lynching photography. It analyzes the dynamics of lynching by focusing on Till’s lynched black body that was displayed publicly by blacks against the wishes of the white lynchers. It argues that the images of a propertied and domesticated Till show him to be part of a community, in stark contrast to the usual lynching photo. It also considers how traumatic events are projected onto the landscape, whereby human deeds are metaphorically blended into the very geography of the land. Finally, it comments on how scholars ignore the life Till lived in Chicago before he perished in Mississippi.
Christen A. Smith
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252039935
- eISBN:
- 9780252098093
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252039935.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
This introductory chapter provides an overview of the book's main arguments. Focusing on the city of Salvador, this book uses performance as a methodological frame for deconstructing gendered ...
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This introductory chapter provides an overview of the book's main arguments. Focusing on the city of Salvador, this book uses performance as a methodological frame for deconstructing gendered antiblack violence. Following the work of performance theorist D. Soyini Madison (2010), it employs performance analytics as a method of social analysis in order to travel back and forth between onstage and offstage. It makes five claims: (1) that the maintenance of racial democracy as a national ideology in Brazil (exemplified by the myth of Bahia's Afro-paradise) depends on the spectacular and mundane repetition of state violence against the black body; (2) that these repetitions of violence are entangled in time and space, implicating the past, the present, and the future; (3) that state violence against the black body is not only a performance but also palimpsestic—embodied, disciplining, and marked by erasure, reinscription, and repetition; (4) that the trauma of the black experience with state violence is a kind of gendered terror that not only harms the bodies of the immediate victims but also inflicts pain on the families and communities of the victims, defining the political stakes of these moments and, in part, blackness itself; and, finally, (5) that the close relationship between Afro-paradise and performance has also led the black community to turn to performance in order to demystify and undo its violence.Less
This introductory chapter provides an overview of the book's main arguments. Focusing on the city of Salvador, this book uses performance as a methodological frame for deconstructing gendered antiblack violence. Following the work of performance theorist D. Soyini Madison (2010), it employs performance analytics as a method of social analysis in order to travel back and forth between onstage and offstage. It makes five claims: (1) that the maintenance of racial democracy as a national ideology in Brazil (exemplified by the myth of Bahia's Afro-paradise) depends on the spectacular and mundane repetition of state violence against the black body; (2) that these repetitions of violence are entangled in time and space, implicating the past, the present, and the future; (3) that state violence against the black body is not only a performance but also palimpsestic—embodied, disciplining, and marked by erasure, reinscription, and repetition; (4) that the trauma of the black experience with state violence is a kind of gendered terror that not only harms the bodies of the immediate victims but also inflicts pain on the families and communities of the victims, defining the political stakes of these moments and, in part, blackness itself; and, finally, (5) that the close relationship between Afro-paradise and performance has also led the black community to turn to performance in order to demystify and undo its violence.
