{"product_id":"photography-on-the-color-line-9780822333319","title":"Photography on the Color Line","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003ePhotography on the Color Line\u003c\/i\u003e should be widely read and widely taught. In this outstanding book, Shawn Michelle Smith has offered not only a spirited reading of a historically important group of photographs but also a methodology and theoretical grounding that are widely applicable even beyond the specific archive of the Du Bois photographs.”—Laura Wexler, author of \u003ci\u003eTender Violence: Domestic Visions in an Age of U.S. Imperialism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Photography on the Color Line \u003c\/i\u003eis both a complicated and fascinating read on race, human displays at expositions, and Du Bois’s notion of double consciousness. It is groundbreaking work on the Du Boisian concept of life on the color line.”—Deborah Willis, coauthor of \u003ci\u003eA Small Nation of People: W. E. B. Du Bois and African American Portraits of Progress\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments xv\u003cbr\u003e INTRODUCTION \u003cbr\u003e Photography on the Color Line 1\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER ONE\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Envisioning Race 25\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER TWO \u003cbr\u003e The Art of Scientific Propaganda 43\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER THREE \u003cbr\u003e “Families of Undoubted Respectability” 7\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER FOUR \u003cbr\u003e Spectacles of Whiteness:\u003cbr\u003eThe Photography of Lynching 113\u003cbr\u003e EPILOGUE \u003cbr\u003e The Archivist in the Archive 147\u003cbr\u003e Notes 161\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 203\u003cbr\u003e Index 217","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406035657047,"sku":"9780822333319","price":112.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/photography-on-the-color-line-9780822333319","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}