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Author:

Gonzalez, Aston, 1986- author.

Title:

Visualizing equality : African American rights and visual culture in the nineteenth century / Aston Gonzalez.

Publisher:

The University of North Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

xiv, 307 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Subject:

African American art--19th century--Political aspects.
African American artists--Political activity--19th century.
African Americans in art.
Art and race.
African Americans--History--History--19th century.
African Americans--History--History--19th century.
Politics in art.
Civil rights movements--United States--History--19th century.
African Americans--Civil rights.
African Americans in art.
African Americans--Race identity.
Art and race.
Civil rights movements.
Politics in art.
United States.
1800-1899
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary:

"Visualizing equality ... analyz[es] how previously unexamined or understudied African American artists shaped conceptions of race during the nineteenth century. Marshaling material from 26 private and public archives in the United States and England, Gonzalez charts the changing roles of African American visual artists as they used their work to expand black rights in the United States. Understudied or forgotten artists such as Robert Douglass Jr., Patrick Henry Reason, James P. Ball, and Augustus Washington produced images to persuade viewers of the necessity for black social equality, political enfranchisement, and freedom from slavery, and Gonzalez argues that these cultural producers helped to make the world they envisioned through their art"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture

ISBN:

1469659964
9781469659961
1469659956
9781469659954

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1142907336

LCCN:

2020007566

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)