[Commlist] New book: Media and the Affective Life of Slavery

Book announcement: /Media and the Affective Life of Slavery/

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Allison Page

University of Minnesota Press

The book is available for order at: 
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/media-and-the-affective-life-of-slavery

Amid fervent conversations about antiracism and police violence, /Media 
and the Affective Life of Slavery/ delivers vital new ideas about how 
our feelings about race are governed and normalized by our media 
landscape. Allison Page examines U.S. media from the 1960s to today, 
analyzing how media culture instructs viewers to act and feel in 
accordance with new racial norms created for an era supposedly defined 
by an end to legal racism.

 From the classic television miniseries /Roots/ to the edutainment 
video game /Mission 2: Flight to Freedom/ and the popular website 
slaveryfootprint.org, /Media and the Affective Life of Slavery/ provides 
an in-depth look at the capitalist and cultural artifacts that teach the 
U.S. public about slavery. Page theorizes media not only as a system of 
representation but also as a technology of citizenship and subjectivity, 
wherein race is seen as a problem to be solved. Ultimately, she argues 
that visual culture works through emotion, a powerful lever for shaping 
and managing racialized subjectivity.

/Media and the Affective Life of Slavery/ delivers compelling, 
provocative material and includes a wealth of archival research into 
such realms as news, entertainment, television, curricula, video games, 
and digital apps, providing new and innovative scholarship where none 
currently exists.

Inquiries: (apage /at/ odu.edu)

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