TY  - GEN
T1  - On racial icons : blackness and the public imagination
T2  - Pinpoints (Series)
A1  - Fleetwood, Nicole R.
LA  - English
PP  - New Brunswick, New Jersey
PB  - Rutgers University Press
YR  - 2015
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn913743659
AB  - 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.
AB  - "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
OP  - 128
CN  - P94.5.A37 F54 2015eb
SN  - 9780813565132
SN  - 0813565138
SN  - 9780813575254
SN  - 0813575257
SN  - 9780813565156
SN  - 0813565154
KW  - African Americans in mass media.
KW  - African American celebrities.
KW  - African Americans : Race identity.
KW  - Black people : Race identity.
KW  - African Americans : Social conditions : 1975-
KW  - Art and race.
KW  - Mass media : Social aspects : United States.
KW  - Visual communication : United States.
KW  - United States : Race relations.
KW  - Photography : Social aspects : United States.
KW  - Noirs américains dans les médias.
KW  - Célébrités noires américaines.
KW  - Noirs américains : Identité ethnique.
KW  - Noirs américains : Conditions sociales : 1975-
KW  - Art et race.
KW  - Médias : Aspect social : États-Unis.
KW  - Communication visuelle : États-Unis.
KW  - États-Unis : Relations raciales.
KW  - Photographie : Aspect social : États-Unis.
KW  - Personnes noires : Identité ethnique.
KW  - PSYCHOLOGY : Social Psychology.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Black Studies (Global)
KW  - Photography : Social aspects
KW  - African American celebrities
KW  - African Americans in mass media
KW  - African Americans : Race identity
KW  - African Americans : Social conditions
KW  - Art and race
KW  - Black people : Race identity
KW  - Mass media : Social aspects
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Visual communication
KW  - United States
KW  - Since 1975
KW  - Electronic book.
ER  -