In: Pinpoints
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. "I Am Trayvon Martin": The Boy Who Became an Icon -- Chapter 2. Democracy's Promise: The Black Political Leader as Icon -- Chapter 3. Giving Face: Diana Ross and the Black Celebrity as Icon -- Chapter 4. The Black Athlete: Racial Precarity and the American Sports Icon -- Coda -- Notes
In: Pinpoints: complex topics, concise explanations [2]
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Explores visual culture and race in the United States, focusing in particular on the significance of photography to document black public life. Examines America's fascination with representing and seeing race in a myriad of contexts as emblematic of national and racial progress at best, or as a gauge of a collective racial wound
In: Pinpoints: complex topics, concise explanations
Explores visual culture and race in the United States, focusing in particular on the significance of photography to document black public life. Examines America's fascination with representing and seeing race in a myriad of contexts as emblematic of national and racial progress at best, or as a gauge of a collective racial wound
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