Race and Vision in the Nineteenth-Century United States presents twelve essays by cultural critics that expose fraught relations of identity and race in architecture, scientific discourse, art, photography, music, and theater, juxtaposed with prominent writers about race and identity, such as Herman Melville and Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Race and Vision in the Nineteenth-Century United States presents twelve essays by cultural critics that expose fraught relations of identity and race in architecture, scientific discourse, art, photography, music, and theater, juxtaposed with prominent writers about race and identity, such as Herman Melville and Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Shirley Samuels is professor of English and American studies at Cornell University.
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Part 1: Articulate Spaces Chapter 1: The Racial Geometry of the Nation: Thomas Jefferson's Grids and Octagons Irene Cheng Chapter 2: Arctic Whiteness: William Bradford, Herman Melville, and the Invisible Spheres of Fright Wyn Kelley Chapter 3: Music and Military Movement: Racial Representation Brigitte Fielder Chapter 4: Black Faces Etched in White Stone: Black Feminist Visuality in Edmonia Lewis's Sculpture Kelli Morgan Chapter 5: Enchanted Optics: Excavating the Magical Empiricism of Holmesian Stereoscopic Sight Cheryl Spinner Chapter 6: Between Word and Image: The Use of Humor, Satire, and Caricature in Early Abolitionist Political Cartoons Martha Cutter Part 2: Democratic Visions Chapter 7: Seeing Irony in Barnum's America: Anti-Slavery Humor in Uncle Tom's Cabin Adena Spingarn Chapter 8: Babo's Skull, Aranda's Skeleton: Visualizing the Sentimentality of Race Science in Benito Cereno Christine Yao Chapter 9: Melville's Greens: Color Theory and Democracy Jennifer Greiman Chapter 10: Narrative Structure as Secular Judgment in Thomas Crawford's Progress of Civilization Kirsten Pai Buick Chapter 11: Beheld by the Eye of God: Photography and the Promise of Democracy in Frederick Douglass's The Heroic Slave Kya Mangrum Chapter 12: Cotton Babies: Mama's Maybe: Kara Walker's Marvels of Invention Janet Neary
Part 1: Articulate Spaces Chapter 1: The Racial Geometry of the Nation: Thomas Jefferson's Grids and Octagons Irene Cheng Chapter 2: Arctic Whiteness: William Bradford, Herman Melville, and the Invisible Spheres of Fright Wyn Kelley Chapter 3: Music and Military Movement: Racial Representation Brigitte Fielder Chapter 4: Black Faces Etched in White Stone: Black Feminist Visuality in Edmonia Lewis's Sculpture Kelli Morgan Chapter 5: Enchanted Optics: Excavating the Magical Empiricism of Holmesian Stereoscopic Sight Cheryl Spinner Chapter 6: Between Word and Image: The Use of Humor, Satire, and Caricature in Early Abolitionist Political Cartoons Martha Cutter Part 2: Democratic Visions Chapter 7: Seeing Irony in Barnum's America: Anti-Slavery Humor in Uncle Tom's Cabin Adena Spingarn Chapter 8: Babo's Skull, Aranda's Skeleton: Visualizing the Sentimentality of Race Science in Benito Cereno Christine Yao Chapter 9: Melville's Greens: Color Theory and Democracy Jennifer Greiman Chapter 10: Narrative Structure as Secular Judgment in Thomas Crawford's Progress of Civilization Kirsten Pai Buick Chapter 11: Beheld by the Eye of God: Photography and the Promise of Democracy in Frederick Douglass's The Heroic Slave Kya Mangrum Chapter 12: Cotton Babies: Mama's Maybe: Kara Walker's Marvels of Invention Janet Neary
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