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Picture freedom : remaking Black visuality in the early nineteenth century
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- Creator
- Jasmine Nichole Cobb
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : New York University Press, [2015]
- Physical Details
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- x, 264 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 1479817228, 9781479830619, 1479829773, 9781479817221, 1479890413, 9781479829774, 9781479890415, 1479830615
- OCLC
- ocn893452282, ocn923734909
- "Also available as an ebook"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-256) and index.
- Introduction: Parlor fantasies, parlor nightmares -- A peculiarly "ocular" institution -- Optics of respectability : women, private horrors and 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
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.