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• Title:Pictures and progress : early photography and the making of African American identity / edited by Maurice O. Wallace and Shawn Michelle Smith.
  
• ISBN:9780822350675 (cloth : alk. paper)
  9780822350859 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  
• Published/Created:Durham : Duke University Press, 2012.
  
• Physical Description:387 p. ; 24 cm.
  

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  • Location:BASS, Lower Level
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  • Call Number: TR23 .P53 2012 (LC)
    
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  • Call Number: TR23 .P53X 2012 (LC)
    
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  • Location:SML, Linonia & Brothers Room
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• Format:Book
• BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references and index.
  
• Contents:Introduction: pictures and progress / Maurice Wallace and Shawn Michelle Smith -- "A More Perfect Likeness" : Frederick Douglass and the image of the nation / Laura Wexler -- "Rightly viewed" : theorizations of self in Frederick Douglass's lecture on pictures / Ginger Hill -- Shadow and substance : Sojourner Truth in black and white / Augusta Rohrbach -- Snapshot 1. unredeemed realities: Augustus Washington / Shawn Michelle Smith -- Mulatta obscura : camera tactics and Linda Brent / Michael Chaney -- Who's your mama? : "white" mulatta genealogies, early photography, and anti-passing narratives of slavery and freedom / P. Gabrielle Foreman -- Out from behind the mask : Paul Laurence Dunbar, the Hampton Institute Camera Club, and photographic performance of identity / Ray Sapirstein -- Snapshot 2. reproducing black masculinity : Thomas Askew / Shawn Michelle Smith -- Louis Agassiz and the American school of ethnoeroticism : polygenesis, pornography, and other "perfidious influences" / Suzanne Schneider -- Framing the black soldier : image, uplift, and the duplicity of pictures / Maurice Wallace -- Snapshot 3. unfixing the frame(-up): A. P. Bedou / Shawn Michelle Smith -- "Looking at one's self through the eyes of others" : W. E. B. Du Bois's photographs for the 1900 Paris Exposition / Shawn Michelle Smith -- Ida B. Wells and the shadow archive / Leigh Raiford -- Snapshot 4. the photographer's touch : J. P. Ball / Shawn Michelle Smith -- No more auction block for me! / Cheryl Finley.
  
• Subjects:Photography--Social aspects--United States--History--19th century.
  African Americans--Race identity--History--19th century.
  
• Also listed under:Wallace, Maurice O. (Maurice Orlando), 1967-
  Smith, Shawn Michelle, 1965-