{"product_id":"american-archives-9780691004785","title":"American Archives","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVisual texts demonstrate the contested terms of American identity. This book offers an account of how photography and the sciences of biological racialism joined forces in the nineteenth century to offer an idea of what Americans look like - or 'should' look like.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"American Archives offers an intellectually adventurous and often astute assessment of visual culture's role in constructing American identity.\"--Joshua Brown, The Journal of American History \"The volume is full of provocative ideas and juxtapositionings. It is a deeply researched, rich, and complex weaving-together of important empirical material and theoretical strands which are relevant beyond the volume's substantive subject matter.\"--Elizabeth Edwards, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations ix  Acknowledgments xii  Introduction American Archives 3  Chapter One Prying Eyes and Middle-Class Magic in The House of the Seven Gables 11  \"Magnetic\" Daguerreotypes and the Masculine Gaze 12  Evil Eyes and Feminine Essence 19  Making the House a Home 24  The Public Private Sphere 26  Chapter Two The Properties of Blood 29  The Blood That Flows in Subterranean Pipes 31  Blood, Character, and Race 41  The Spectacle of Race 45  Seeing Bloodlines 47  Chapter Three Superficial Depths 51  The Portrait and the Likeness. Photographing the Soul 55  Class Acts: Real Things and True Performances 62  The Criminal Body and the Portrait of a Type 68  Consuming Commodities: Gender in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction 93  Chapter Four \"Baby's Picture Is Always Treasured\": Eugenics and the Reproduction of Whiteness in the Family Photograph Album 113  Mechanically Reproducing Baby 115  Reproducing Racial Inheritance 122  Sentimental Aura and the Evidence of Race 132  Chapter Five America Coursing through Her Veins 136  From the Bonds of Love to Bloodlines 137  America's White Aristocracy 141  In the Name of White Womanhood 144  \"A Heritage Unique in the Ages\" 150  Chapter Six Photographing the \"American Negro\": Nation, Race, and Photography at the Paris Exposition of 1900 157  Racialized Bodies, National Character, and Photographic Documentation 158  Making Americans 167  Conserving Race in the Nation 177  Chapter Seven Looking Back: Pauline Hopkins's Challenge to Eugenics 187  Envisioning Race: Bodies on Display in Hagar's Daughter \"Sons of One Father\" 194  Excavating the Hidden Self 198  Visions beyond the Color Line 203  Chapter Eight Reconfiguring a Masculine Gaze 206  Visions of Commodified Identity in Consumer Culture 207  Conspicuous Consumption under a Masculine Gaze: Rethinking Gender in Sister Carrie 210  Parting Glances 220  Afterimages A Brief Look at American Visual Culture in the 1990s 222  Notes 227  Bibliography 271  Index 291","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403668136279,"sku":"9780691004785","price":36.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/american-archives-9780691004785","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}