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Picture freedom remaking Black visuality in the early nineteenth century

Title
Picture freedom [electronic resource] : remaking Black visuality in the early nineteenth century / Jasmine Nichole Cobb.
Author
Cobb, Jasmine Nichole.
Publication
New York : New York University Press, [2015]

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Description
1 online resource (x, 264 pages)
Series Statement
America and the long 19th century
Uniform Title
Picture freedom (Online)
Alternative Title
Picture freedom (Online)
Subject
  • Free African Americans > History > 19th century
  • Free African Americans > History > 19th century > Pictorial works
  • Pictures > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century
  • Slavery > Social aspects > History > United States > 19th century
  • African Americans > History > To 1863
  • Visual communication > United States > History > 19th century
  • Popular culture > United States > History > 19th century
  • African Americans in popular culture > History > 19th century
  • Racism in popular culture > United States > History > 19th century
  • United States > Race relations > History > 19th century
Note
  • "Also available as an ebook"--Title page verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-256) and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
Introduction: Parlor fantasies, parlor nightmares -- A peculiarly "ocular" institution -- Optics of respectability : women, private horrors and the black private sphere -- Look! a Negress : public women, private horrors and the white ontology of the gaze -- Racial iconography : freedom and Black citizenship in antebellum public cultures -- Racing the transatlantic parlor : blackness at home and abroad -- Epilogue: The specter of Black freedom.
LCCN
2014044419
OCLC
ssj0001459654
Author
Cobb, Jasmine Nichole.
Title
Picture freedom [electronic resource] : remaking Black visuality in the early nineteenth century / Jasmine Nichole Cobb.
Imprint
New York : New York University Press, [2015]
Series
America and the long 19th century
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-256) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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