Pictures and progress
Subtitle: early photography and the making of African American identity
By: edited by Maurice O. Wallace and Shawn Michelle Smith
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780822350675; 9780822350859
Subjects: Photography; African Americans; Race identity; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: pictures and progress / Maurice Wallace and Shawn Michelle Smith; title: "A More Perfect Likeness" : Frederick Douglass and the image of the nation / Laura Wexler; title: "Rightly viewed" : theorizations of self in Frederick Douglass's lecture on pictures / Ginger Hill; title: Shadow and substance : Sojourner Truth in black and white / Augusta Rohrbach; title: Snapshot 1. unredeemed realities: Augustus Washington / Shawn Michelle Smith; title: Mulatta obscura : camera tactics and Linda Brent / Michael Chaney; title: Who's your mama? : "white" mulatta genealogies, early photography, and anti-passing narratives of slavery and freedom / P. Gabrielle Foreman; title: Out from behind the mask : Paul Laurence Dunbar, the Hampton Institute Camera Club, and photographic performance of identity / Ray Sapirstein; title: Snapshot 2. reproducing black masculinity : Thomas Askew / Shawn Michelle Smith; title: Louis Agassiz and the American school of ethnoeroticism : polygenesis, pornography, and other "perfidious influences" / Suzanne Schneider; title: Framing the black soldier : image, uplift, and the duplicity of pictures / Maurice Wallace; title: Snapshot 3. unfixing the frame(-up): A. P. Bedou / Shawn Michelle Smith; title: "Looking at one's self through the eyes of others" : W. E. B. Du Bois's photographs for the 1900 Paris Exposition / Shawn Michelle Smith; title: Ida B. Wells and the shadow archive / Leigh Raiford; title: Snapshot 4. the photographer's touch : J. P. Ball / Shawn Michelle Smith; title: No more auction block for me! / Cheryl Finley.