Smith Photography on the Color Line

W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8578-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

Reihe: A John Hope Franklin Center Book

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, Shawn Michelle

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie Porträtfotografie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie Fotografie: Geschichte und Sammlungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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:

The Photography of Lynching 113

EPILOGUE

The Archivist in the Archive 147

Notes 161

Bibliography 203

Index 217

Über Autor(innen)

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.