Visualizing Equality : African American Rights and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century /

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"Visualizing equality ... analyz[es] how previously unexamined or understudied African American artists shaped conceptions of race during the nineteenth century. Marshaling material from 26 private and public archives in the United States and England, Gonzalez charts the changing roles of Afric...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Gonzalez, Aston, 1986- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Politics in art.
Civil rights movements.
Art and race.
African Americans > Race identity.
African Americans in art.
African Americans > Civil rights.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Politique dans l'art.
Noirs americains > Identite ethnique > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Noirs americains > Droits > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Art et race.
Noirs americains dans l'art.
Artistes noirs americains > Activite politique > 19e siecle.
Art noir americain > 19e siecle > Aspect politique.
Civil rights movements > United States > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Race identity > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 19th century.
African American artists > Political activity > 19th century.
African American art > 19th century > Political aspects.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"Visualizing equality ... analyz[es] how previously unexamined or understudied African American artists shaped conceptions of race during the nineteenth century. Marshaling material from 26 private and public archives in the United States and England, Gonzalez charts the changing roles of African American visual artists as they used their work to expand black rights in the United States. Understudied or forgotten artists such as Robert Douglass Jr., Patrick Henry Reason, James P. Ball, and Augustus Washington produced images to persuade viewers of the necessity for black social equality, political enfranchisement, and freedom from slavery, and Gonzalez argues that these cultural producers helped to make the world they envisioned through their art"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (324 pages).
ISBN:9781469659985

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