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

Fleetwood, Nicole R

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