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Picture Freedom

Name: Picture Freedom
Brand: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 9781479829774
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Remaking Black Visuality in the Early Nineteenth Century

Autor: Jasmine Nichole Cobb

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Editura: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

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In the decades leading up to the end of U.S. slavery, many free Blacks sat for daguerreotypes decora...

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Autor

Jasmine Nichole Cobb

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2015

Pagini

288

EAN

9781479829774

ISBN

1479829773

Enbook ID

09240886

Editura

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Greutate

436

Dimensiuni

229 x 154 x 21

Descriere completă

In the decades leading up to the end of U.S. slavery, many free Blacks sat for daguerreotypes decorated in fine garments to document their self-possession. People pictured in these early photographs used portraiture to seize control over representation of the free Black body and reimagine Black visuality divorced from the cultural logics of slavery. In Picture Freedom, Jasmine Nichole Cobb analyzes the ways in which the circulation of various images prepared free Blacks and free Whites for the emancipation of formerly unfree people of African descent. She traces the emergence of Black freedom as both an idea and as an image during the early nineteenth century. Through an analysis of popular culture of the period--including amateur portraiture, racial caricatures, joke books, antislavery newspapers, abolitionist materials, runaway advertisements, ladies' magazines, and scrapbooks, as well as scenic wallpaper--Cobb explores the earliest illustrations of free Blacks and reveals the complicated route through visual culture toward a vision of African American citizenship. Picture Freedom reveals how these depictions contributed to public understandings of nationhood, among both domestic eyes and the larger Atlantic world.