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Photography on the color line : W.E.B. Du Bois, race, and visual culture

Shawn Michelle Smith (Author)
An exploration of the visual meaning of the color line and racial politics through the analysis of archival photographs collected by W.E.B. Du Bois and exhibited at the Paris Exposition of 1900
eBook, English, 2004
Duke University Press, Durham, 2004
History
1 online resource (xviii, 225 pages) : illustrations
9780822385783, 0822385783
191855706
Introduction : photography on the color line
Envisioning race
The art of scientific propaganda
"Families of undoubted respectability"
Spectacles of whiteness : the photography of lynching
The archivist in the archive
"John Hope Franklin Center Book."