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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.
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African Americans in mass media, Blacks, Visual communication, Race identity, Art and race, African American celebrities, Mass media, Social conditions, African Americans, African americans, race identity, Blacks, united states, Blacks, race identity, Images, photographic, Race relations, Photography, Social aspectsPlaces
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On Racial Icons: Blackness and the Public Imagination
2015, Rutgers University Press
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0813575257 9780813575254
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On Racial Icons: Blackness and the Public Imagination
2015, Rutgers University Press
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0813565138 9780813565132
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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