Brandi Thompson Summers is an assistant professor of African American studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her research and teaching focus on race, urban aesthetics, media, and visual culture. She is completing her book “Black in Place: The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a Post-Chocolate City.”
Brandi Thompson Summers
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Writing on Public Books
Black Lives Under Surveillance
Modern capitalism has always placed an undue burden on black bodies. Slavery, forced labor, and dispossession have moved hand in hand with forces of surveillance and the power of the state. In cities like Ferguson, Baltimore, Milwaukee, and Oakland—and countless others that have never reached national awareness—abysmal economic conditions have found an intimate partner in […]
