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October 15, 2025Open Access

Criminal Housing: Photographs of African American Dwellings and the Visualization of Structural Violence in the Black Radical Press of the 1960s and 1970s

Key Points

The article reveals how the visibility of distressed housing symbolizes structural violence against African Americans and reflects political discourses.
It discusses the role of visual capital in publications like Muhammad Speaks and The Black Panther in representing racial violence.
The analysis emphasizes the significance of housing in shaping narratives about acute and chronic forms of violence within the Black community.
The examination of these publications offers insights into the editorial practices that engage with socio-political issues surrounding racism.

Abstract

This article studies the modes of visibility of housing in the Black radical press of the 1960s and 1970s, in Muhammad Speaks and The Black Panther, and how this site/sight relates to violence, which it makes tangible in the landscape. An object of particular attention in the political and social discourses of both the Nation of Islam and the Black Panther Party, the distressed dwelling is also visual capital that can be put to use in the visual editorial practices of both publications, and woven within textual, conceptual, and narrative engagements with both acute and chronic forms of racist violence.

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