RT Book
T1 Legal spectatorship: slavery and the visual culture of domestic violence
A1 Moore, Kelli 1976-
LA English
PP Durham London
PB Duke University Press
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/178459735X
AB Authenticating domestic violence : image and feeling in abolitionist media -- Battered women in a cybernetic milieu -- Authenticating testimony in the domestic violence courtroom -- Incorporating camp in criminal justice.
AB "Legal Spectatorship examines the visual culture surrounding domestic violence, or DV, focusing on the ways that photographs are marshaled as a form of spectacular evidence rooted in slavery and antiblackness. Historically, slaves were not able to testify in person in court although they were often silent witnesses to white domestic conflicts. Today, these histories of racism are embedded into domestic violence prosecution as photographs documenting evidence of DV stand in for women's testimony, and an extensive web of surveillance and administrative tactics criminalize female victims. Kelli Moore reads the legislative, juridical, and media structures that have developed around domestic violence as an extension of the logics of slavery that points to a broader form of US "domestic violence" in the form of slavery and racism. The chapters take up slave witnessing and black subjectivity; the psychological theories that developed around DV in the context of the Civil Rights movement; "artivism" around domestic violence imagery and anti-DV campaigns; and Moore's own ethnographic work in the courtroom observing domestic violence cases"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN HV6626
SN 9781478015703
SN 9781478018346
K1 Family Violence : Law and legislation : United States
K1 Victims of family violence : Legal status, laws, etc : United States
K1 Slavery : Social aspects : United States
K1 African Americans : Social conditions : 19th century
K1 Discrimination in justice administration : United States : History : 19th century
K1 Photography : Social aspects : United States
K1 Legal photography : United States
K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies
K1 Social Science / Media Studies
K1 USA : Häusliche Gewalt : Unterdrückung : Sklaverei : Rassismus : Intersektionalität : Gerichtssaal : Visuelle Medien : Fotografie : Beweis