"In other words, fears about the invasion of privacy and the dehumanizing effects of media commerce were partially the inheritance of the overlapping symbolic, visual, and commercial economies of slavery, for which the spectacle of the enslaved body serves as the central organizing principle." (79)
I think the passage above is interesting in light of the scene where Annie drops off something for Sarah Jane at school and by doing so, ruins her "passing act." To Sarah Jane this is viewed as publicity invading the private world she constructed and wished to mediate to her class mates. In this case the "dehumanizing effects of media commerce" were caused by Annie confusing or blurring the "lines of difference that found and maintained specifically racialized subjectivities (80)" How does Annie's mere presence bring force the trauma to Sarah Jane's privacy that was previously only though possible through a specific mass media process
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