Seeing through race: a reinterpretation of civil rights photography
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1. Verfasser: Berger, Martin A. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley University of California Press c2011
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Beschreibung:"George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies."
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction : the iconic photographs of civil rights -- The formulas of documentary photography -- White shame, white empathy -- Perfect victims and imperfect tactics -- The lost images of civil rights
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
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ISBN:0520268636
0520268644
0520948343
9780520268630
9780520268647
9780520948341

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