Title Seeing through race : a reinterpretation of civil rights photography / Martin A. Berger ; foreword by David J. Garrow.

Publication Info.	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2011]
	©2011

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Description	1 online resource (xii, 243 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Note	"George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies."
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction : the iconic photographs of civil rights -- The formulas of documentary photography -- White shame, white empathy -- Perfect victims and imperfect tactics -- The lost images of civil rights.
Summary	Seeing through Race is a boldly original reinterpretation of the iconic photographs of the black civil rights struggle. Martin A. Berger's provocative and groundbreaking study shows how the very pictures credited with arousing white sympathy, and thereby paving the way for civil rights legislation, actually limited the scope of racial reform in the 1960s. Berger analyzes many of these famous images--dogs and fire hoses turned against peaceful black marchers in Birmingham, tear gas and clubs wielded against voting-rights marchers in Selma--and argues that because white sympathy was dependent on p.
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Subject	Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Civil rights movements.
	United States.
	History.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	White people -- United States -- Attitudes -- History -- 20th century.
	White people.
	African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.
	African Americans -- Civil rights.
	African Americans -- Social conditions -- History -- 20th century.
	African Americans -- Social conditions.
	Photography -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Photography -- Social aspects.
	Documentary photography -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Documentary photography -- Social aspects.
	Documentary photography.
	Photojournalism -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Photojournalism.
	Social aspects.
	United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
	Race relations.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Berger, Martin A. Seeing through race. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2011 9780520268630 (DLC) 2010036230 (OCoLC)664837984
ISBN	9780520948341 (electronic book)
	0520948343 (electronic book)
	9780520268630
	0520268636
	9780520268647
	0520268644

Title Seeing through race : a reinterpretation of civil rights photography / Martin A. Berger ; foreword by David J. Garrow.

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