On racial icons
Subtitle: blackness and the public imagination
By: Nicole R. Fleetwood
Series: Pinpoints: complex topics, concise explanations; Pinpoints (Series)
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780813565156
Subjects: African Americans in mass media; Blacks; Visual communication; Race identity; Art and race; African American celebrities; Mass media; Social conditions; African Americans
Description: Explores visual culture and race in the United States, focusing in particular on the significance of photography to document black public life. Examines America's fascination with representing and seeing race in a myriad of contexts as emblematic of national and racial progress at best, or as a gauge of a collective racial wound.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: "I am Trayvon Martin": the boy who became an icon; title: Democracy's promise: The black political leader as icon; title: Giving face: Diana Ross and the black celebrity as icon; title: The black athlete: Racial precarity and the American sports icon; title: Coda.