On Racial Icons : : Blackness and the Public Imagination / / Nicole R. Fleetwood.
What meaning does the American public attach to images of key black political, social, and cultural figures? Considering photography's role as a means of documenting historical progress, what is the representational currency of these images? How do racial icons "signify"? Nicole R. Fl...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Pinpoints
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (144 p.) :; 33 photographs |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. "I Am Trayvon Martin": The Boy Who Became an Icon
- Chapter 2. Democracy's Promise: The Black Political Leader as Icon
- Chapter 3. Giving Face: Diana Ross and the Black Celebrity as Icon
- Chapter 4. The Black Athlete: Racial Precarity and the American Sports Icon
- Coda
- Notes