Seeing through race [electronic resource] : a reinterpretation of civil rights photography / Martin A. Berger ; foreword by David J. Garrow.
Berger, Martin A.
2011
E185.61 .B44 2011eb
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Title Seeing through race [electronic resource] : a reinterpretation of civil rights photography / Martin A. Berger ; foreword by David J. Garrow.
Author Berger, Martin A.
ISBN 9780520948341 (electronic bk.)
0520948343 (electronic bk.)
9780520268630
0520268636
9780520268647
0520268644
Imprint Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xii, 243 p.) : ill.
Call Number E185.61 .B44 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 323.1196/073
Summary Seeing through Race is a boldly original reinterpretation of the iconic photographs of the black civil rights struggle. Martin A. Berger's provocative and groundbreaking study shows how the very pictures credited with arousing white sympathy, and thereby paving the way for civil rights legislation, actually limited the scope of racial reform in the 1960s. Berger analyzes many of these famous images-dogs and fire hoses turned against peaceful black marchers in Birmingham, tear gas and clubs wielded against voting-rights marchers in Selma-and argues that because white sympathy was dependent on photographs of powerless blacks, these unforgettable pictures undermined efforts to enact-or even imagine-reforms that threatened to upend the racial balance of power.
Note "George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies."
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction : the iconic photographs of civil rights
The formulas of documentary photography
White shame, white empathy
Perfect victims and imperfect tactics
The lost images of civil rights.

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