@article{439377,
      recid = {439377},
      author = {Berger, Martin A.},
      title = {Seeing through race a reinterpretation of civil rights  photography / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {University of California Press,},
      address = {Berkeley :},
      pages = {1 online resource (xii, 243 p.) :},
      year = {2011},
      note = {"George Gund Foundation imprint in African American  studies."},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/439377},
}