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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787914503321

Autore

Capshaw Katharine

Titolo

Civil Rights Childhood [[electronic resource] ] : Picturing Liberation in African American Photobooks

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2014

ISBN

1-4529-4369-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (377 p.)

Disciplina

323.1196/073009045

Soggetti

African American arts -- Influence -- History -- 20th century

African American children -- Pictorial works

African American children -- Social conditions -- 20th century

African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century

Art and social action -- United States -- History -- 20th century

Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century

Photography -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century

Picture books -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century

Social justice -- United States -- History -- 20th century

United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; 1. Friendship, Sympathy, Social Change; 2. Pictures and Nonfiction; 3. Today; 4. The Black Arts Movement; 5. Blurring the Childhood Image; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Childhood joy, pleasure, and creativity are not often associated with the civil rights movement. Their ties to the movement may have faded from historical memory, but these qualities received considerable photographic attention in that tumultuous era. Katharine Capshaw's Civil Rights Childhood reveals how the black child has been-and continues to be-a social agent that demands change. Because children carry a compelling aura of human value and potential, images of African American children in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education



had a powerful effect on the fight for civil rights. In the ic