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Pictures and progress : early photography and the making of African American identity. edited by Maurice O. Wallace and Shawn Michelle Smith

Wallace, Maurice O (1967-...) Smith, Shawn Michelle (1965-...) 2012

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  • Title:
    Pictures and progress : early photography and the making of African American identity. edited by Maurice O. Wallace and Shawn Michelle Smith
  • Author: Wallace, Maurice O (1967-...);
    Smith, Shawn Michelle (1965-...)
  • Subjects: Photography -- Social aspects -- History -- United States -- 19th century;
    African Americans -- Race identity -- History -- 19th century;
    Photographie -- Aspect social -- États-Unis -- 19e siècle;
    Noirs américains -- Identité collective -- 19e siècle
  • Description: Bibliogr. p. 349-368. Index
    Introduction : pictures and progress / Maurice Wallace and Shawn Michelle Smith "A More Perfect Likeness" : Frederick Douglass and the image of the nation / Laura Wexler "Rightly viewed" : theorizations of self in Frederick Douglass's lecture on pictures / Ginger Hill Shadow and substance : Sojourner Truth in black and white / Augusta Rohrbach Snapshot 1. unredeemed realities: Augustus Washington / Shawn Michelle Smith Mulatta obscura : camera tactics and Linda Brent / Michael Chaney Who's your mama ? : "white" mulatta genealogies, early photography, and anti-passing narratives of slavery and freedom / P. Gabrielle Foreman Out from behind the mask : Paul Laurence Dunbar, the Hampton Institute Camera Club, and photographic performance of identity / Ray Sapirstein Snapshot 2. reproducing black masculinity : Thomas Askew / Shawn Michelle Smith Louis Agassiz and the American school of ethnoeroticism : polygenesis, pornography, and other "perfidious influences" / Suzanne Schneider Framing the black soldier : image, uplift, and the duplicity of pictures / Maurice Wallace Snapshot 3. unfixing the frame(-up): A. P. Bedou / Shawn Michelle Smith "Looking at one's self through the eyes of others" : W. E. B. Du Bois's photographs for the 1900 Paris Exposition / Shawn Michelle Smith Ida B. Wells and the shadow archive / Leigh Raiford Snapshot 4. the photographer's touch : J. P. Ball / Shawn Michelle Smith No more auction block for me ! / Cheryl Finley
  • Publisher: Durham and London : Duke University Press, 2012
  • Creation Date: 2012
  • Format: 1 vol. ([vii]-387 p.) : ill., couv. ill. ; 24 cm
  • Language: English
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