Shawn Michelle Smith

Photography on the Color Line

W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An exploration of the visual meaning of the color line and racial politics through the analysis of archival photographs collected by W.E.B. Du Bois and exhibited at the Paris Exposition of 1900.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9780822333319
• ISBN-10: 0822333317
• Artikelnr.: 21469051

Autorenporträt

Shawn Michelle Smith is Associate Professor of American Studies at Saint Louis University. She is the author of American Archives: Gender, Race, and Class in Visual Culture.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xv
INTRODUCTION
Photography on the Color Line 1
CHAPTER ONE
> Envisioning Race 25
CHAPTER TWO
The Art of Scientific Propaganda 43
CHAPTER THREE
"Families of Undoubted Respectability" 7
CHAPTER FOUR
Spectacles of Whiteness:
> EPILOGUE
The Archivist in the Archive 147
Notes 161
Bibliography 203
Index 217