Pictures and Progress: Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity

by Maurice O. Wallace

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Pictures and Progress explores how, during the nineteenth century and the early twentieth, prominent African American intellectuals and activists understood photography's power to shape perceptions about race and employed the new medium in their quest for social and political justice. They sought both to counter widely circulating racist imagery and to use self-representation as a means of empowerment. In this collection of essays, scholars...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0822350858

ISBN13:9780822350859

Release Date:June 2012

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:400 Pages

Weight:1.58 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"

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Arts, Music & Photography Photography Social Science Social Sciences

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