On racial icons
About this book
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.
Details
- OL Work ID
- OL20005120W
Subjects
African Americans in mass mediaBlacksVisual communicationRace identityArt and raceAfrican American celebritiesMass mediaSocial conditionsAfrican AmericansAfrican americans, race identityBlacks, united statesBlacks, race identityImages, photographicRace relationsPhotographySocial aspects