Race And Vision In The Nineteenth Century United States

Author : Shirley Samuels
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498573126
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Race and Vision in the Nineteenth-Century United States written by Shirley Samuels and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-11-08 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Race and Vision in the Nineteenth-Century United States is a collection of twelve essays by cultural critics that exposes how fraught relations of identity and race appear through imaging technologies in architecture, scientific discourse, sculpture, photography, painting, music, theater, and, finally, the twenty-first century visual commentary of Kara Walker. Throughout these essays, the racial practices of the nineteenth century are juxtaposed with literary practices involving some of the most prominent writers about race and identity, such as Herman Melville and Harriet Beecher Stowe, as well as the technologies of performance including theater and music. Recent work in critical theories of vision, technology, and the production of ideas about racial discourse has emphasized the inextricability of photography with notions of race and American identity. The collected essays provide a vivid sense of how imagery about race appears in the formative period of the nineteenth-century United States.

Author : Shirley Samuels
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9781498573139
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Race and Vision in the Nineteenth-Century United States written by Shirley Samuels and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2023-05-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Deborah Poole
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691234647
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vision, Race, and Modernity written by Deborah Poole and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an intensive examination of photographs and engravings from European, Peruvian, and U.S. archives, Deborah Poole explores the role visual images and technologies have played in shaping modern understandings of race. Vision, Race, and Modernity traces the subtle shifts that occurred in European and South American depictions of Andean Indians from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, and explains how these shifts led to the modern concept of "racial difference." While Andean peoples were always thought of as different by their European describers, it was not until the early nineteenth century that European artists and scientists became interested in developing a unique visual and typological language for describing their physical features. Poole suggests that this "scientific" or "biological" discourse of race cannot be understood outside a modern visual economy. Although the book specifically documents the depictions of Andean peoples, Poole's findings apply to the entire colonized world of the nineteenth century. Poole presents a wide range of images from operas, scientific expeditions, nationalist projects, and picturesque artists that both effectively elucidate her argument and contribute to an impressive history of photography. Vision, Race, and Modernity is a fascinating attempt to study the changing terrain of racial theory as part of a broader reorganization of vision in European society and culture.

Author : Aston Gonzalez
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469659972
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visualizing Equality written by Aston Gonzalez and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2020-07-20 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fight for racial equality in the nineteenth century played out not only in marches and political conventions but also in the print and visual culture created and disseminated throughout the United States by African Americans. Advances in visual technologies--daguerreotypes, lithographs, cartes de visite, and steam printing presses--enabled people to see and participate in social reform movements in new ways. African American activists seized these opportunities and produced images that advanced campaigns for black rights. In this book, Aston Gonzalez charts the changing roles of African American visual artists as they helped build the world they envisioned. Understudied artists such as Robert Douglass Jr., Patrick Henry Reason, James Presley Ball, and Augustus Washington produced images to persuade viewers of the necessity for racial equality, black political leadership, and freedom from slavery. Moreover, these activist artists' networks of transatlantic patronage and travels to Europe, the Caribbean, and Africa reveal their extensive involvement in the most pressing concerns for black people in the Atlantic world. Their work demonstrates how images became central to the ways that people developed ideas about race, citizenship, and politics during the nineteenth century.

Author : Eddie S. Glaude
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226298205
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exodus! written by Eddie S. Glaude and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000-03-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AcknowledgementsPart One: Exodus History1. "Bent Twigs and Broken Backs": An Introduction2. Of the Black Church and the Making of a Black Public3. Exodus, Race, and the Politics of Nation4. Race, Nation, and the Ideology of Chosenness5. The Nation and Freedom CelebrationsPart Two: Exodus Politics6. The Initial Years of the Black Convention Movement7. Respectability and Race, 1835-18428. "Pharaoh's on Both Sides of the Blood-Red Waters": Henry Highland Garnet and the National Convention of 1843Epilogue: The Tragedy of African American PoliticsNotesIndex Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Thomas Bender
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801829253
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toward an Urban Vision written by Thomas Bender and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 1982-08-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Karen Ruth Kornweibel
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1683930983
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing for Inclusion written by Karen Ruth Kornweibel and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing for Inclusion is a study of some of the ways the idea of national identity developed in the nineteenth century in two neighboring nations, Cuba and The United States. The book examines symbolic, narrative, and sociological commonalities in the writings of four Afro-Cuban and African American writers: Juan Francisco Manzano and Frederick Douglass, fugitive slaves during mid-century; and Martín Morúa Delgado and Charles W. Chesnutt from the post-slavery period. All four share sensitivity to their imperfect inclusion as full citizens, engage in an examination of the process of racialization that hinders them in seeking such inclusion, and contest their definition as non-citizens. Works discussed include the slave narratives of Manzano and Douglass, Manzano’s poetry and play Zafira, andDouglass’s oratory and novella The Heroic Slave. Also considered, within the context provided by Manzano and Douglass, are Morúa and Chesnutt’s non-fiction writings about race and nation as well as their second-generation “tragic mulata” novels Sofía and The House Behind the Cedars. Based on an examination of the works of these four authors, Writing for Inclusion provides a detailed examination of examples of self-emancipation, the authors’ symbolic use of language, their expression of social anxieties or irony within the quest for recognition, and their arguments for an inclusive vision of national identity beyond the quagmires of race. By focusing on the process of racialization and ideas of race and national identity in a comparative context, the study seeks to highlight the artificial and contested nature of both terms and suggest new ways to interrogate them in our present day.

Author : Joseph R. Washington
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN 13 : 9780889466838
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Race and Religion in Mid-nineteenth Century America, 1850-1877 written by Joseph R. Washington and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study focuses on Protestant philanthropic agencies - Calvinist conservatives and social liberals - as competing colour-conscious clerical classes of charioteers driving chariots of charity... behind the Cotton Curtain.

Author : Eric Tyrone Lowery Love
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807855652
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Race Over Empire written by Eric Tyrone Lowery Love and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generations of historians have maintained that in the last decade of the nineteenth century white-supremacist racial ideologies such as Anglo-Saxonism, social Darwinism, benevolent assimilation, and the concept of the "white man's burden" drove American i

Author : Anne Fountain
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813063205
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book José Martí, the United States, and Race written by Anne Fountain and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Essential reading for those who increasingly appreciate the enormous importance of Martí as one of the nineteenth century's most influential and most original thinkers."--John Kirk, coeditor of Redefining Cuban Foreign Policy "Fountain's wide-ranging, keen-eyed, and meticulously researched analysis covers the gamut of race relations that Martí's work probed."--Esther Allen, translator of José Martí: Selected Writings "An engaging, comprehensive, and well-balanced book on Cuba's national hero José Martí. Anne Fountain's chapters on Martí's vision of blacks are an indispensable source of information for anyone interested in the topic."--Jorge Camacho, author of José Martí: las máscaras del escritor A national hero in Cuba and a champion of independence across Latin America, José Martí produced a body of writing that has been theorized, criticized, and politicized. However, one of the most understudied aspects of his work is how his time in the United States affected what he wrote about race and his attitudes toward racial politics. In the United States Martí encountered European immigrants and the labor politics that accompanied them and became aware of the hardships experienced by Chinese workers. He read in newspapers and magazines about the oppression of Native Americans and the adversity faced by newly freed black citizens. Although he'd first witnessed the mistreatment of slaves in Cuba, it was in New York City, near the close of the century, where he penned his famous essay "My Race," declaring that there was only one race, the human race. Anne Fountain argues that it was in the United States that Martí--confronted by the forces of manifest destiny, the influence of race in politics, the legacy of slavery, and the plight and promise of the black Cuban diaspora--fully engaged with the specter of racism. Examining Martí's complete works with a focus on key portions, Fountain reveals the evolution of his thinking on the topic, indicating the significance of his sources, providing a context for his writing, and offering a structure for his works on race. Anne Fountain is professor of Spanish and Latin American studies at San José State University and the author of José Martí and U.S. Writers.