id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_dwj3o5jpxvhrladoxadw2rcigu Cord J Whitaker About the Cover 2015 2 .pdf application/pdf 651 47 65 The cover image has the potential to unsettle its viewer in ways that the essays in this issue seek to pressing concerns about time: If this is not the kind of blackness that signals a knight's evil, is it because in medieval literature, art and warfare, a knight's blackness inheres in his armor, not his skin? Are questions of blackness in response to the image so decidedly modern, so anachronistic, that they Is this image not that of a medieval black knight at all, but rather that of a modern notion of a medieval black knight – a notion that is ultimately erroneous? questions, the image disturbs the humdrum of racial time. When Aaron Palomides confronts you with his sidelong gaze, he knows he is a black knight. modern camera, disturbing race and time, he does so in order to get away from the very kinds of ./cache/work_dwj3o5jpxvhrladoxadw2rcigu.pdf ./txt/work_dwj3o5jpxvhrladoxadw2rcigu.txt