Colored Pictures Race and Visual Representation

Name: Colored Pictures Race and Visual Representation
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ISBN: 9780807856963

ISBN-10: 0807856967

ISBN-13: 9780807856963

Edition: 2006

Authors: Michael D. Harris, Moyo Okediji

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In this book, artist and art historian Michael Harris investigates the role of visual representation in the construction of black identities, both real and imagined, in the United States. He focuses particularly on how African American artists have responded to--and even used--stereotypical images in their own works. Harris shows how, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, racial stereotypes became the dominant mode through which African Americans were represented. These characterizations of blacks formed a substantial part of the foundation of white identity and social power. They also, Harris argues, seeped into African Americans' self-images and undermined their self-esteem.…

Book details

List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 2/27/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English

Michael D. Harris is associate professor of African and African American art history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. An artist and curator, he is a longtime member of the Chicago-based artists' collective AfriCobra.



Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction. Black: The Discredited Signifier/Signified



Constructing and Visualizing Race



The Nineteenth Century: Imaged Ideology



Aunt Jemima, the Fantasy Black Mammy/Servant



Jezebel,Olympia, and the Sexualized Woman



Color Lines: Mapping Color Consciousness in the Art of Archibald Motley Jr



The Language of Appropriation: Fantasies and Fallacies



Turning In from the Periphery Coda


Notes


Index