Photography on the Color Line : W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture /

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An exploration of the visual meaning of the color line and racial politics through the analysis of archival photographs collected by W.E.B. Du Bois and exhibited at the Paris Exposition of 1900.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, Shawn Michelle, 1965- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Du Bois, W. E. B. > (William Edward Burghardt), > 1868-1963.
Du Bois, W. E. B. > (William Edward Burghardt), > 1868-1963. > Du Bois albums of photographs of African Americans in Georgia exhibited at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900.
Race relations.
Photography.
African Americans > Race identity.
PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Portraits
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Imaging Systems.
PHOTOGRAPHY > Reference.
COMPUTERS > Digital Media > Photography.
Noirs americains > Identite ethnique.
Photography > United States > History.
United States.
États-Unis > Relations raciales.
United States > Race relations.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : photography on the color line
  • Envisioning race
  • The art of scientific propaganda
  • "Families of undoubted respectability"
  • Spectacles of whiteness : the photography of lynching
  • The archivist in the archive.

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