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Author:

Cobb, Jasmine Nichole.

Title:

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

Publisher:

New York University Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

x, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Free African Americans--History--19th century.
Free African Americans--History--19th century--Pictorial works.
Pictures--United States--United States--History--19th century.
Slavery--History--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--History--History--19th century.

Notes:

"Also available as an ebook"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-256) and index.

Contents:

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.

Series:

America and the long 19th century

ISBN:

1479829773 (paper : acid-free paper)
9781479829774 (paper : acid-free paper)
1479817228 (cloth : acid-free paper)
9781479817221 (cloth : acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)893452282

LCCN:

2014044419

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)