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Author Cobb, Jasmine Nichole.

Title Picture freedom : remaking Black visuality in the early nineteenth century / Jasmine Nichole Cobb.

Publication Info. New York : New York University Press, 2015.

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series America and the Long 19th Century
America and the long 19th century.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary "Picture Freedom provides a unique and nuanced interpretation of nineteenth-century African American life and culture. Focusing on visuality, print culture, and an examination of the parlor, Cobb has fashioned a book like none other, convincingly demonstrating how whites and blacks reimagined racial identity and belonging in the early republic."--Erica Armstrong Dunbar, author of A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City.
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Subject Racism in popular culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Racism in popular culture.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject African Americans in popular culture -- History -- 19th century.
African Americans in popular culture.
Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Popular culture.
Visual communication -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Visual communication.
African Americans -- History -- To 1863.
African Americans.
Chronological Term To 1863
Subject Slavery -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Slavery -- Social aspects.
Slavery.
Pictures -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Pictures -- Social aspects.
Pictures.
Free African Americans -- History -- 19th century -- Pictorial works.
Free African Americans.
Genre/Form Pictorial works.
Subject Free African Americans -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
Race relations.
Chronological Term To 1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Illustrated works.
Illustrated works.
Other Form: Print version: Cobb, Jasmine Nichole. Picture freedom. New York : New York University Press, 2015 (DLC) 2014044419
ISBN 9781479830619 (electronic book)
1479830615 (electronic book)
1479830615
9781479817221 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
9781479829774 (paper ; acid-free paper)
9781479890415
1479890413