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Picture freedom : remaking Black visuality in the early nineteenth century / Jasmine Nichole Cobb.
- Title
- Picture freedom : 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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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | E185.18 .C62 2015 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- x, 264 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits, facsimiles; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- America and the long 19th century
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books
- America and the long 19th century
- Subject
- To 1899
- Free African Americans > History > 19th century
- Free African Americans > History > 19th century > Pictorial works
- Pictures > Social aspects > History > United States > 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
- Noirs américains affranchis > Histoire > 19e siècle
- Noirs américains affranchis > Histoire > 19e siècle > Ouvrages illustrés
- Illustrations, images, etc. > Aspect social > Histoire > États-Unis > 19e siècle
- Noirs américains > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1863
- Communication visuelle > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle
- Culture populaire > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle
- Noirs américains dans la culture populaire > Histoire > 19e siècle
- Racisme dans la culture populaire > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle
- African Americans
- African Americans in popular culture
- Free African Americans
- Pictures > Social aspects
- Popular culture
- Race relations
- Racism in popular culture
- Slavery > Social aspects
- Visual communication
- United States > Race relations > History > 19th century
- États-Unis > Relations raciales > Histoire > 19e siècle
- United States
- Genre/Form
- illustrated books.
- Illustrated works
- History.
- Pictorial works
- Ouvrages illustrés.
- Note
- "Also available as an ebook"--Title page verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-256) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9781479817221
- 1479817228
- 9781479829774
- 1479829773
- LCCN
- 2014044419
- 40024816314
- 99975510317
- OCLC
- 893452282
- SCSB-10713326
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library