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Pictures and Progress: Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity - Wallace, Maurice O (Editor), and Smith, Shawn Michelle (Editor)
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Pictures and Progress explores how, during the nineteenth century and the early twentieth, prominent African American intellectuals and activists understood photography's power to shape perceptions about race and employed the new medium in their quest for social and political justice. They sought both to counter widely circulating racist imagery and to use self-representation as a means of empowerment. In this collection of essays, scholars from various disciplines consider figures including Frederick Douglass, Sojourner ...

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Pictures and Progress: Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity 2012, Duke University Press

ISBN-13: 9780822350859

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Pictures and Progress: Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity 2012, Duke University Press

ISBN-13: 9780822350675

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