George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies
Contents
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
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 p
Notes
"George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies."
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from electronic title page (EBSCOhost, viewed November 14, 2017)
