Pictures and progress : early photography and the making of African American identity Introduction: pictures and progress Maurice Wallace and Shawn Michelle Smith A More Perfect Likeness : Frederick Douglass and the image of the nation Laura Wexler Rightly viewed : theorizations of self in Frederick Douglasss lecture on pictures Ginger Hill Shadow and substance : Sojourner Truth in black and white Augusta Rohrbach Snapshot 1. unredeemed realities: Augustus Washington Shawn Michelle Smith Mulatta obscura : camera tactics and Linda Brent Michael Chaney Whos your mama : white mulatta genealogies early photography and anti passing narratives of slavery and freedom P. Gabrielle Foreman Out from behind the mask : Paul Laurence Dunbar the Hampton Institute Camera Club and photographic performance of identity Ray Sapirstein Snapshot 2. reproducing black masculinity : Thomas Askew Shawn Michelle Smith Louis Agassiz and the American school of ethnoeroticism : polygenesis pornography and other perfidious influences Suzanne Schneider Framing the black soldier : image uplift and the duplicity of pictures Maurice Wallace Snapshot 3. unfixing the frame( up): A. P. Bedou Shawn Michelle Smith Looking at ones self through the eyes of others : W. E. B. Du Boiss photographs for the 1900 Paris Exposition Shawn Michelle Smith Ida B. Wells and the shadow archive Leigh Raiford Snapshot 4. the photographers touch : J. P. Ball Shawn Michelle Smith No more auction block for me! Cheryl Finley