Picture freedom
Subtitle: remaking Black visuality in the early nineteenth century
By: Jasmine Nichole Cobb
Series: America and the long 19th century; America and the long 19th century
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781479817221; 9781479829774
Subjects: Race relations; Pictures; Popular culture; African Americans in popular culture; Visual communication; Slavery; Racism in popular culture; Free African Americans; African Americans; Pictorial works; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-256) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Parlor fantasies, parlor nightmares; title: A peculiarly "ocular" institution; title: Optics of respectability : women, private horrors and the black private sphere; title: Look! a Negress : public women, private horrors and the white ontology of the gaze; title: Racial iconography : freedom and Black citizenship in antebellum public cultures; title: Racing the transatlantic parlor : blackness at home and abroad; title: Epilogue: The specter of Black freedom.