Includes bibliographical references (p. 404-408) and index.
Contents:
Morphologies: race as a visual technology / Jennifer González. The theoretical status of the concept of race / Howard Winant -- V. PROGRESS/REGRESS -- The traffic in photographs / Allan Sekula -- The shadow and the substance: race, photography and the index / Nicholas Mirzoeff -- Looking for empire in the U.S. colonial archive / Javier Morillo-Alicea -- II. ASSIMILATE/IMPERSONATE -- Black bodies, white science: Louis Agassiz's slave daguerreotypes / Brian Wallis -- Prairie pinups: reconsidering historic portraits of American Indian women / Aleta M. Ringlero -- No-movies: the art of false documents / C. Ondine Chavoya -- III. HUMANIZE/FETISHIZE -- Skin head sex thing: racial difference and the homoerotic imaginary / Kobena Mercer -- The consumption of lynching images / Leigh Raiford -- Exposure / Deborah Willis -- IV. ALL FOR ONE/ONE FOR ALL -- On the matter of whiteness / Richard Dyer -- Autonomy and the archive in America: reexamining the intersection of photography and stereotype / Lauri Firstenberg -- Toyo Miyatake and "our world" / Karin Higa -- Passing likeness: Dorothea Lange's "migrant mother" and the paradox of iconicity / Sally Stein -- V. PROGRESS/REGRESS -- Where truth ends and fantasy begins: postcards from the South Pacific / Caroline Vercoe -- Morphologies: race as a visual technology / Jennifer González.
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