Seeing through race : a reinterpretation of civil rights photography /

Seeing through Race is a boldly original reinterpretation of the iconic photographs of the black civil rights struggle. Martin A. Berger's provocative and groundbreaking study shows how the very pictures credited with arousing white sympathy, and thereby paving the way for civil rights legislat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Berger, Martin A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2011]
Colección:George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies
Temas:
1900-1999
Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century.
White people > United States > Attitudes > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Social conditions > History > 20th century.
Photography > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Documentary photography > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Photojournalism > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Noirs américains > Droits > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Noirs américains > Conditions sociales > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Photographie > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Photographie documentaire > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Photographie de presse > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
African Americans > Civil rights.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Civil rights movements.
Documentary photography > Social aspects.
Photography > Social aspects.
Race relations.
White people > Attitudes.
United States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Histoire > 20e siècle.
United States.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Seeing through Race is a boldly original reinterpretation of the iconic photographs of the black civil rights struggle. Martin A. Berger's provocative and groundbreaking study shows how the very pictures credited with arousing white sympathy, and thereby paving the way for civil rights legislation, actually limited the scope of racial reform in the 1960s. Berger analyzes many of these famous images--dogs and fire hoses turned against peaceful black marchers in Birmingham, tear gas and clubs wielded against voting-rights marchers in Selma--and argues that because white sympathy was dependent on p.
Notas:"George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies."
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xii, 243 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780520948341
0520948343

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