- Description
- 1 online resource (xii, 128 pages) : illustrations.
- 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
- On racial icons (Online)
- Pinpoints (Series)
- Alternative Title
- On racial icons (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-128).
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- "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.
- ISBN
- 9780813565156 (pbk.)
- 0813565154 (paperback)
- 9780813565132 (ebook (Web PDF)) (canceled/invalid)
- 9780813575254 (ebook (ePub)) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2014959402
- OCLC
- ssj0001578387
- Author
Fleetwood, Nicole R.
- Title
On racial icons [electronic resource] : blackness and the public imagination / Nicole R. Fleetwood.
- Imprint
New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2015]
- Series
Pinpoints: complex topics, concise explanations ; [2]
Pinpoints (Series)
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-128).
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
Since 1975