On racial icons : blackness and the public imagination /
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...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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New Brunswick, New Jersey :
Rutgers University Press
[2015]
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| Series: | Pinpoints (Series)
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt15sk7t3 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- "I am Trayvon Martin": the boy who became an icon
- Democracy's promise: The black political leader as icon
- Giving face: Diana Ross and the black celebrity as icon
- The black athlete: Racial precarity and the American sports icon
- Coda.