How does Rankine use her own personal experience to connect to the larger issue about which she speaks?

What does Rankine argue about the visible body? How, in her account, has the visibility or invisibility operated politically?

What can we see and what remains invisible?

How do political, cultural, and economic structures dictate what is visible and what isn’t?

Can seeing become a political act?

What is seeing, and is it something we need to work at?

This semester we will dive into the question of who, and what, we can see, and why.