The Image of Whiteness
Blight, Daniel C
How contemporary photographers from Hank Willis Thomas to Libita Clayton have subverted the constructions and complicities of whitenessFrom the advent of early colonial photography in the 19th century to contemporary "white savior" social-media images, photography continues to play an integral role in the maintenance of white sovereignty. As various scholars have shown, the technology of the camera is not innocent, and neither are the images i...