{"product_id":"the-matter-of-black-living-autumn-womack-9780226806914","title":"The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880-1930","description":"\u003cb\u003eExamining how turn-of-the-century Black cultural producers' experiments with new technologies of racial data produced experimental aesthetics.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As the nineteenth century came to a close and questions concerning the future of African American life reached a fever pitch, many social scientists and reformers approached post-emancipation Black life as an empirical problem that could be systematically solved with the help of new technologies like the social survey, photography, and film. What ensued was nothing other than a \"racial data revolution,\" one which rendered African American life an inanimate object of inquiry in the name of social order and racial regulation. At the very same time, African American cultural producers and intellectuals such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Kelly Miller, Sutton Griggs, and Zora Neale Hurston staged their own kind of revolution, un-disciplining racial data in ways that captured the dynamism of Black social life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Matter of Black Living\u003c\/i\u003e excavates the dynamic interplay between racial data and Black aesthetic production that shaped late nineteenth-century social, cultural, and literary atmosphere. Through assembling previously overlooked archives and seemingly familiar texts, Womack shows how these artists and writers recalibrated the relationship between data and Black life. The result is a fresh and nuanced take on the history of documenting Blackness. \u003ci\u003eThe Matter of Black Living\u003c\/i\u003e charts a new genealogy from which we can rethink the political and aesthetic work of racial data, a task that has never been more urgent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Autumn Womack\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022680691X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226806914\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/04\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.43h x 5.43w x 0.87d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2023","brand":"Autumn Womack","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44048910156031,"sku":"9780226806914","price":27.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ea6f8245-6f58-41ed-adcb-56c9aad406ad.jpg?v=1684998523","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-matter-of-black-living-autumn-womack-9780226806914","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}