Nicole R Fleetwood

On Racial Icons

Blackness and the Public Imagination

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Produktbeschreibung

In On Racial Icons, Nicole R. Fleetwood focuses a sustained look on photography in documenting black public life, exploring the ways in which iconic images function as celebrations of national and racial progress at times or as a gauge of collective racial wounds in moments of crisis. 

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• First Edition, First edition
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 139mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 211g
• ISBN-13: 9780813565156
• ISBN-10: 0813565154
• Artikelnr.: 41749110

Autorenporträt

NICOLE R. FLEETWOOD is the director of the Institute for Research on Women and an associate professor of American Studies at Rutgers University. She specializes in visual culture and media studies, black cultural studies, and gender theory. She is the author of the award-winning book Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness. 

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One:  “I Am Trayvon Martin”: The Boy who Became an Icon
Chapter Two:  Democracy’s Promise: The Black Political Leader as Icon
Chapter Three: Giving Face: Diana Ross and the Black Celebrity as Icon
Chapter Four: The Black Athlete: Racial Precarity and the American Sports
Icon
Coda
Index
About the Author