Seeing through race
a reinterpretation of civil rights photography
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Publication
2011 - University of California Press, Berkeley, California
Language
English
Word Count
60,750 words, Guess
Page Count
243 pages
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- Internet Archiveseeingthroughrac0000berg
- ISBN-139780520268630
- ISBN-139780520268647
- ISBN-100520268636
- ISBN-100520268644
and 5 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2010036230
- OCLC Control Number664837984
- Better World Books9780520268647
- Better World Books9780520268630
- Open LibraryOL24383992M
Classifications
- DDC323.1196/073
- LCCE185.61 .B44 2011
- LCCE185.61.B44 2011
Description
"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 rights legislation, actually limited the scope of racial reform in the 1960s. Berger analyzes many of these famous images - dogs and fire hoses turned against peaceful black marchers in Birmingham, tear gas and clubs wielded against voting-rights marchers in Selma - and argues that because white sympathy was dependent on photographs of powerless blacks, these unforgettable pictures undermined efforts to enact - or even imagine - reforms that threatened to upend the racial balance of power.
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