American Archives: Gender, Race, and Class in Visual Culture

by Shawn Michelle Smith

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Visual texts uniquely demonstrate the contested terms of American identity. In American Archives Shawn Michelle Smith offers a bold and disturbing account of how photography and the sciences of biological racialism joined forces in the nineteenth century to offer an idea of what Americans look like--or "should" look like. Her varied sources, which include the middle-class portrait, baby picture, criminal mugshot, and eugenicist record, as...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0691004781

ISBN13:9780691004785

Release Date:November 1999

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:302 Pages

Weight:1.15 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Related Subjects

American Literature Anthropology Communication & Journalism Cultural Gender Studies Literature Literature & Fiction Media Studies Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Photography

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