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Race and Vision in the Nineteenth-Century United States, Hardback Book

Race and Vision in the Nineteenth-Century United States Hardback

Edited by Shirley Samuels

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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.

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