For all the world to see : visual culture and the struggle for civil rights /
By: Berger, Maurice.
Contributor(s): International Center of Photography
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Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2010Description: xv, 207 p. : ill., plates (some col.) ; 26 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780300121315 (hbk.); 9780300121315:; 0300121318 (hbk.).Subject(s): Race relations -- Art -- Exhibitions | African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century | Art and race -- Exhibitions | African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century -- Sources | Civil rights movements -- United States -- Pictorial works -- Exhibitions | Art and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century | African Americans in art -- Exhibitions | African Americans in popular culture -- History -- 20th century | African Americans in mass media -- Exhibitions | Visual communication -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Mass media -- Social aspects -- United States -- Exhibitions | Civil rights in art | African Americans in art | Racism in artDDC classification: 973.04 Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Related exhibition held at the International Center of Photography, New York, May 21 - Sept. 12, 2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: weapons of choice -- It keeps on rollin' along: the status quo -- The new "new Negro": the culture of positive images -- Plates -- "Let the world see what I've seen": evidence and persuasion -- Guess who's coming to dinner: broadcasting race -- Epilogue: in our lives we are whole: the pictures of everyday life.
This volume examines the ways images mattered in the struggle for civil rights, and investigates various media including photography, television, film, magazines, newspapers, and advertising.