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Photography on the Color Line
W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture
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Shawn Michelle Smith
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English
Published/Copyright:
2004
About this book
An exploration of the visual meaning of the color line and racial politics through the analysis of archival photographs collected by W.E.B. Du Bois and exhibited at the Paris Exposition of 1900.
Author / Editor information
Shawn Michelle Smith is Associate Professor of American Studies at Saint Louis University. She is the author of American Archives: Gender, Race, and Class in Visual Culture.
Reviews
“Photography on the Color Line should be widely read and widely taught. In this outstanding book, Shawn Michelle Smith has offered not only a spirited reading of a historically important group of photographs but also a methodology and theoretical grounding that are widely applicable even beyond the specific archive of the Du Bois photographs.”—Laura Wexler, author of Tender Violence: Domestic Visions in an Age of U.S. Imperialism
“Photography on the Color Line is both a complicated and fascinating read on race, human displays at expositions, and Du Bois’s notion of double consciousness. It is groundbreaking work on the Du Boisian concept of life on the color line.”—Deborah Willis, coauthor of A Small Nation of People: W. E. B. Du Bois and African American Portraits of Progress
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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List of Illustrations
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction Photography on the Color Line
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Chapter one Envisioning Race
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Chapter two The Art of Scientific Propaganda
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Chapter three ‘‘Families of Undoubted Respectability’’
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Chapter four Spectacles of Whiteness: The Photography of Lynching
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Epilogue The Archivist in the Archive
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
June 7, 2004
eBook ISBN:
9780822385783
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
272
Other:
86 photographs (incl. special plate section)
