On racial icons : blackness and the public imagination / Nicole R. Fleetwood.

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Explores visual culture and race in the United States, focusing in particular on the significance of photography to document black public life. Examines America's fascination with representing and seeing race in a myriad of contexts as emblematic of national and racial progress at best, or as a gaug...

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Uniform Title:	Pinpoints (Series)
Main Author:	Fleetwood, Nicole R. (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2015]
Series:	Pinpoints (Series)
Subjects:	African Americans in mass media. African American celebrities. African Americans > Race identity. Black people > Race identity. African Americans > Social conditions > 1975- Art and race. Mass media > Social aspects > United States. Visual communication > United States. United States > Race relations.
Physical Description:	xii, 128 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Format:	Book

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Summary:	Explores visual culture and race in the United States, focusing in particular on the significance of photography to document black public life. Examines America's fascination with representing and seeing race in a myriad of contexts as emblematic of national and racial progress at best, or as a gauge of a collective racial wound.
Call Number:	P94.5.A37 F54 2015
Bibliography Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:	9780813565156 0813565154