On Racial Icons : Blackness and the Public Imagination /

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"What meaning does the American public attach to images of key black political, social, and cultural figures? Considering photography's role as a means of documenting historical progress, what is the representational currency of these images? How do racial icons 'signify'? Nicole...

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Autor principal: Fleetwood, Nicole R. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Visual communication.
Race relations.
Mass media > Social aspects.
Black people > Race identity.
Art and race.
African Americans > Social conditions.
African Americans > Race identity.
African Americans in mass media.
African American celebrities.
Photography > Social aspects
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Black Studies (Global)
PSYCHOLOGY > Social Psychology.
Photographie > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Communication visuelle > États-Unis.
Medias > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Art et race.
Noirs americains > Conditions sociales > 1975-
Noirs americains > Identite ethnique.
Celebrites noires americaines.
Noirs americains dans les medias.
Photography > Social aspects > United States.
Visual communication > United States.
Mass media > Social aspects > United States.
African Americans > Social conditions > 1975-
United States.
États-Unis > Relations raciales.
United States > Race relations.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"What meaning does the American public attach to images of key black political, social, and cultural figures? Considering photography's role as a means of documenting historical progress, what is the representational currency of these images? How do racial icons 'signify'? Nicole R. Fleetwood's answers to these questions will change the way you think about the next photograph that you see depicting a racial event, black celebrity, or public figure. In On Racial Icons, Fleetwood focuses a sustained look on photography in documenting black public life, exploring the ways in which iconic images function as celebrations of national and racial progress at times or as a gauge of collective racial wounds in moments of crisis. Offering an overview of photography's ability to capture shifting race relations, Fleetwood spotlights in each chapter a different set of iconic images in key sectors of public life. She considers flash points of racialized violence in photographs of Trayvon Martin and Emmett Till; the political, aesthetic, and cultural shifts marked by the rise of pop stars such as Diana Ross; and the power and precarity of such black sports icons as Serena Williams and LeBron James; and she does not miss Barack Obama and his family along the way"--Publisher 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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (144 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780813565132

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