On racial icons

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On racial icons

by Nicole R. Fleetwood

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First published: 2015 1 language ISBN: 9780813575254

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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.

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African Americans in mass media Blacks Visual communication Race identity Art and race African American celebrities Mass media Social conditions African Americans African americans, race identity

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