Venus, Serena, and the Inconspicuous Consumption of Blackness

@article{Douglas2012VenusSA,
  title={Venus, Serena, and the Inconspicuous Consumption of Blackness},
  author={Delia D. Douglas},
  journal={Journal of Black Studies},
  year={2012},
  volume={43},
  pages={127 - 145}
}
  • D. Douglas
  • Published 1 March 2012
  • Art
  • Journal of Black Studies
As the U.S. population becomes more racially diverse and different groups move in to previously White-dominated spaces, new techniques of exclusion and marginalization are being employed in an effort to regulate the opportunities and progress available to racialized minority groups. In this article, the author argues that mass media’s preoccupation with the Williams sisters’ “on-court” play and “off-court” activities constitutes a form of surveillance that is used by Whites to identify, observe… 
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