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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction American Archives | |
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| Prying Eyes and Middle-Class Magic in The House of the Seven Gables | |
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| "Magnetic" Daguerreotypes and the Masculine Gaze | |
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| Evil Eyes and Feminine Essence | |
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| Making the House a Home | |
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| The Public Private Sphere | |
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| The Properties of Blood | |
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| The Blood That Flows in Subterranean Pipes | |
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| Blood, Character, and Race | |
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| The Spectacle of Race | |
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| Seeing Bloodlines | |
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| Superficial Depths | |
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| The Portrait and the Likeness. Photographing the Soul | |
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| Class Acts: Real Things and True Performances | |
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| The Criminal Body and the Portrait of a Type | |
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| Consuming Commodities: Gender in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction | |
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| "Baby's Picture Is Always Treasured": Eugenics and the Reproduction of Whiteness in the Family Photograph Album | |
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| Mechanically Reproducing Baby | |
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| Reproducing Racial Inheritance | |
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| Sentimental Aura and the Evidence of Race | |
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| America Coursing through Her Veins | |
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| From the Bonds of Love to Bloodlines | |
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| America's White Aristocracy | |
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| In the Name of White Womanhood | |
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| "A Heritage Unique in the Ages" | |
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| Photographing the "American Negro": Nation, Race, and Photography at the Paris Exposition of 1900 | |
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| Racialized Bodies, National Character, and Photographic Documentation | |
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| Making Americans | |
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| Conserving Race in the Nation | |
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| Looking Back: Pauline Hopkins's Challenge to Eugenics | |
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| Envisioning Race: Bodies on Display in Hagar's Daughter "Sons of One Father" | |
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| Excavating the Hidden Self | |
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| Visions beyond the Color Line | |
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| Reconfiguring a Masculine Gaze | |
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| Visions of Commodified Identity in Consumer Culture | |
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| Conspicuous Consumption under a Masculine Gaze: Rethinking Gender in Sister Carrie | |
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| Parting Glances | |
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| Afterimages A Brief Look at American Visual Culture in the 1990s | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |