Title Visualizing equality : African American rights and visual culture in the nineteenth century / Aston Gonzalez

Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource Series The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture. Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: Pictured Appeals, Social Reformers -- 1. Graphic Exchanges: Robert Douglass Jr.'s Activism in Philadelphia -- 2. Picturing Black Fugitivity and Respectability in New York City -- 3. Compositions of No Ordinary Merit and the Struggle for Black Rights -- 4. Spectacular Activism: Black Abolitionists and Their Moving Panoramas -- 5. The Optics of Liberian Emigration -- 6. Freedom and Citizenship: Conflicting Views of Wartime -- 7. Religion, Rights, and the Promises of Reconstruction -- EPILOGUE Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z Summary "Visualizing equality ... analyz[es] how previously unexamined or understudied African American artists shaped conceptions of race during the nineteenth century. Marshaling material from 26 private and public archives in the United States and England, Gonzalez charts the changing roles of African American visual artists as they used their work to expand black rights in the United States. Understudied or forgotten artists such as Robert Douglass Jr., Patrick Henry Reason, James P. Ball, and Augustus Washington produced images to persuade viewers of the necessity for black social equality, political enfranchisement, and freedom from slavery, and Gonzalez argues that these cultural producers helped to make the world they envisioned through their art"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject African American art -- 19th century -- Political aspects African American artists -- Political activity -- 19th century African Americans in art. Art and race. African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 19th century African Americans -- Race identity -- History -- 19th century Politics in art. Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies. African Americans -- Civil rights African Americans in art African Americans -- Race identity Art and race Civil rights movements Politics in art United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781469659985 1469659980 9781469659978 1469659972

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