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Seeing through race : a reinterpretation of civil rights photography /

"Seeing through Race" is a boldly original reinterpretation of the iconic photographs of the black civil rights struggle. Martin A. Berger's provocative and groundbreaking study shows how the very pictures credited with arousing white sympathy, and thereby paving the way for civil rig...

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Main Author: Berger, Martin A.
Other Authors: Garrow, David J., 1953- (writer of foreword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2011]
Subjects:
Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century.
White people > United States > Attitudes > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Social conditions > 20th century.
Photography > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Documentary photography > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Photojournalism > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
United States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
ISBN:9780520268630
0520268636
9780520268647
0520268644
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the iconic photographs of civil rights
  • The formulas of documentary photography
  • White shame, white empathy
  • Perfect victims and imperfect tactics
  • The lost images of civil rights.

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