- 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
- 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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