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Picture freedom : remaking Black visuality in the early nineteenth century /

"Picture Freedom provides a unique and nuanced interpretation of nineteenth-century African American life and culture. Focusing on visuality, print culture, and an examination of the parlor, Cobb has fashioned a book like none other, convincingly demonstrating how whites and blacks reimagined r...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cobb, Jasmine Nichole
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, 2015.
Colección:America and the long 19th century.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Parlor fantasies, parlor nightmares
  • A peculiarly "ocular" institution
  • Optics of respectability : spectatorship in the Black private sphere
  • Look! a Negress : public women, private horrors and the white ontology of the gaze
  • Racial iconography : freedom and Black citizenship in antebellum public cultures
  • Racing the transatlantic parlor : blackness at home and abroad
  • Epilogue: The specter of Black freedom.