On Looking: Lynching Photographs and Legacies of Lynching after 9/11

On looking at lynching photograph

Just Joking? Chimps, Obama and Racial Stereotype

Public racist stereotypes after the election of Barack Obam

The Routledge Companion to Urban Imaginaries

One of the most pressing challenges in the world today is access to clean water. This chapter explores the crises of contaminated water in Flint, water shutoffs in Detroit, and larger questions about the control of water by private corporations and the changing nature of urbanization. As neoliberal policies seek to privatize infrastructure and essential resources, the resulting crises illustrate the disastrous results of decisions driven by profit rather than the public good and demonstrate the need for a rethinking of the urban imaginary to produce a radically democratic, anticapitalist form of global urbanization

The Auschwitz Memorial Museum and the Case of the Gypsy Portraits

A unique dispute over ownership rights to artwork in the case of the Auschwitz Memorial Museum vs. former camp prisoner Dinah Gottliebova Babbitt illuminates underlying moral questions about the Holocaust and post-Holocaust culture

Torture Culture: Lynching Photographs and the Images of Abu Ghraib

On the photographs of torture at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and the visual politics of powe

Technologies of War, Media, and Dissent in the Post 9/11 Work of Krzysztof Wodiczko

On the work of Krzysztof Wodiczk

The Ruins of Capitalism

By depicting urban decay and ecological crisis, ruin imagery shows the people and places that capitalism left behind

Between Two Worlds: Arab Americans in Detroit

Catalog essay for "Brotherville," photographic exhibition by Farah Al Qasim

"Heroes" and "Whores": The Politics of Gender in Weimar Antiwar Imagery

Weimar antimilitarist imagery shows that ideals of manliness and maternity, concepts central to the German patriotic view of World War I, were not limited to use by the political right but were redefined and deployed by antiwar artists Otto Dix and Käthe Kollwitz, and in photographs published by the pacifist propagandist Ernst Friedrich, who exhibited images by all three in his International Antiwar Museum in Berlin in 1924. These gendered representations of war, while throwing into question the straightforward "progressiveness" of antiwar visual imagery, reveal the relationship between gendered identity, militarism, and patriarchal capitalism

Cultural Battlegrounds: Weimar Photographic Narratives of War

On pacifist and patriotic visual imagery and the tenth anniversary of the First World War in Weimar Germa