Martin A. Berger

Seeing through Race

A Reinterpretation of Civil Rights Photography

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Seeing through Race is a boldly original reinterpretation of the iconic photographs of the black civil rights struggle. Martin A. Berger's provocative and groundbreaking study shows how the very pictures credited with arousing white sympathy, and thereby paving the way for civil rights legislation, actually limited the scope of racial reform in the 1960s. Berger analyzes many of these famous images-dogs and fire hoses turned against peaceful black marchers in Birmingham, tear gas and clubs wielded against voting-rights marchers in Selma-and argues that because white sympathy was dependent on photographs of powerless blacks, these unforgettabl… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-520-94834-1
EAN: 9780520948341
Produktnummer: 32097621
Verlag: Vanderbilt University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 264 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 4'553 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor

Martin A. Berger is Professor and Director of the Visual Studies Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of Man Made: Thomas Eakins and the Construction of Gilded Age Manhood and Sight Unseen: Whiteness and American Visual Culture, both from UC Press. David J. Garrow is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.