Picture freedom : remaking Black visuality in the early nineteenth century /

Picture freedom : remaking Black visuality in the early nineteenth century /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cobb, Jasmine Nichole (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2015]
Series:America and the long 19th century.
Subjects:
Free African Americans > History > 19th century.
Free African Americans > History > 19th century > Pictorial works.
Pictures > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Slavery > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
African Americans > History > To 1863.
Visual communication > United States > History > 19th century.
Popular culture > United States > History > 19th century.
African Americans in popular culture > History > 19th century.
Racism in popular culture > United States > History > 19th century.
United States > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Parlor fantasies, parlor nightmares
  • A peculiarly "ocular" institution
  • Optics of respectability : spectatorship in the Black private sphere
  • Look! a Negress : public women, private horrors and the white ontology of the gaze
  • Racial iconography : freedom and Black citizenship in antebellum public cultures
  • Racing the transatlantic parlor : blackness at home and abroad
  • Epilogue: The specter of Black freedom.