American Archives: Gender, Race, and Class in Visual CultureVisual texts uniquely demonstrate the contested terms of American identity. In American Archives Shawn Michelle Smith offers a bold and disturbing 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. Her varied sources, which include the middle-class portrait, baby picture, criminal mugshot, and eugenicist record, as well as literary, scientific, and popular texts, enable her to demonstrate how new visual paradigms posed bodily appearance as an index to interior "essence." Ultimately we see how competing preoccupations over gender, class, race, and American identity were played out in the making of a wide range of popular and institutional photographs. |
Contents
IV | 11 |
V | 12 |
VI | 19 |
VII | 24 |
VIII | 26 |
IX | 29 |
X | 31 |
XI | 41 |
XXV | 135 |
XXVI | 138 |
XXVII | 144 |
XXVIII | 151 |
XXIX | 152 |
XXX | 161 |
XXXI | 171 |
XXXII | 176 |
XII | 45 |
XIII | 47 |
XIV | 51 |
XV | 55 |
XVI | 61 |
XVII | 67 |
XVIII | 87 |
XIX | 107 |
XX | 109 |
XXI | 116 |
XXII | 126 |
XXIII | 130 |
XXIV | 131 |
XXXIII | 178 |
XXXIV | 183 |
XXXV | 187 |
XXXVI | 192 |
XXXVII | 195 |
XXXVIII | 196 |
XXXIX | 199 |
XL | 209 |
XLI | 211 |
XLII | 216 |
XLIII | 260 |
XLIV | 280 |
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American Archives: Gender, Race, and Class in Visual Culture Shawn Michelle Smith Limited preview - 1999 |
American Archives: Gender, Race, and Class in Visual Culture Shawn Michelle Smith Limited preview - 1999 |
American Archives: Gender, Race, and Class in Visual Culture Shawn Michelle Smith No preview available - 1999 |