Title: On racial icons
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.
Subjects: African Americans in mass media, Blacks, Visual communication, Race identity, Art and race, African American celebrities, Mass media, Social conditions, African Americans, African americans, race identity, Blacks, united states, Blacks, race identity, Images, photographic, Race relations, Photography, Social aspects
Places: United States
Time periods: 1975-