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On racial icons : blackness and the public imagination
- Title
- On racial icons : blackness and the public imagination / Nicole R. Fleetwood.
- Author
- Fleetwood, Nicole R.
- Publication
- New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2015]
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Details
- Description
- xii, 128 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Pinpoints: complex topics, concise explanations ; [2]
- Uniform Title
- Pinpoints (Series)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc D 15-1409
- ISBN
- 9780813565156
- 0813565154
- OCLC
- 893709675
- Author
- Fleetwood, Nicole R., author.
- Title
- On racial icons : blackness and the public imagination / Nicole R. Fleetwood.
- Publisher
- New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2015]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Pinpoints: complex topics, concise explanations ; [2]Pinpoints (Series)
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 15-1409