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Picture freedom : remaking Black visuality in the early nineteenth century / Jasmine Nichole Cobb.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: America and the long 19th centuryPublication details: New York : New York University Press, 2015.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781479830619
  • 1479830615
  • 1479817228
  • 9781479817221
  • 1479829773
  • 9781479829774
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Picture freedom.DDC classification:
  • 305.896/073009034 23
LOC classification:
  • E185.18 .C62 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: Parlor fantasies, parlor nightmares -- A peculiarly "ocular" institution -- Optics of respectability : spectatorship in the Black private sphere -- Look! a Negress : public women, private horrors and the white ontology of the gaze -- Racial iconography : freedom and Black citizenship in antebellum public cultures -- Racing the transatlantic parlor : blackness at home and abroad -- Epilogue: The specter of Black freedom.
Summary: "Picture Freedom provides a unique and nuanced interpretation of nineteenth-century African American life and culture. Focusing on visuality, print culture, and an examination of the parlor, Cobb has fashioned a book like none other, convincingly demonstrating how whites and blacks reimagined racial identity and belonging in the early republic."--Erica Armstrong Dunbar, author of A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Parlor fantasies, parlor nightmares -- A peculiarly "ocular" institution -- Optics of respectability : spectatorship in the Black private sphere -- Look! a Negress : public women, private horrors and the white ontology of the gaze -- Racial iconography : freedom and Black citizenship in antebellum public cultures -- Racing the transatlantic parlor : blackness at home and abroad -- Epilogue: The specter of Black freedom.

Print version record.

"Picture Freedom provides a unique and nuanced interpretation of nineteenth-century African American life and culture. Focusing on visuality, print culture, and an examination of the parlor, Cobb has fashioned a book like none other, convincingly demonstrating how whites and blacks reimagined racial identity and belonging in the early republic."--Erica Armstrong Dunbar, author of A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City.

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