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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807608603321

Autore

Raiford Leigh

Titolo

Imprisoned in a luminous glare : photography and the African American freedom struggle / / Leigh Renee Raiford

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, North Carolina : , : The University of North Carolina Press, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

1-4696-0341-1

0-8078-8233-X

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

323.1196073

Soggetti

African Americans - Civil rights - History

African Americans - History

Civil rights movements - United States - History

African American civil rights workers

Photography - United States - History - 20th century

United States Race relations

United States Race relations Pictorial works

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. No Relation to the Facts about Lynching; 2. Come Let Us Build a New World Together; 3. Attacked First by Sight; Conclusion: Or Was It the Pictures That Made Her Unrecognizable?; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare, Leigh Raiford argues that over the past one hundred years activists in the black freedom struggle have used photographic imagery both to gain political recognition and to develop a different visual vocabulary about black lives. Raiford analyzes why activists chose photography over other media, explores the doubts some individuals had about the strategies, and shows how photography became an increasingly effective, if complex, tool in representing black political interests. Offering readings of the use of photography in the antilynching movement