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african american freedom struggle
Author_Leigh Raiford
black freedom activists and photography
black political interests and photography
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photography and the african american freedom struggle
photography in the anti-lynching movement
Product details
- ISBN 9781469609782
- Weight: 464g
- Dimensions: 154 x 231mm
- Publication Date: 01 Aug 2013
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare , Leigh Raiford argues that over the past one hundred years activists in the black freedom struggle have used photographic imagery both to gain political recognition and to develop a different visual vocabulary about black lives. Raiford analyzes why activists chose photography over other media, explores the doubts some individuals had about the strategies, and shows how photography became an increasingly effective, if complex, tool in representing black political interests. Offering readings of the use of photography in the antilynching movement, the civil rights movement, and the black power movement, Raiford focuses on key transformations in technology, society, and politics to understand the evolution of photography's deployment in capturing white oppression, black resistance, and African American life. By putting photography at the center of the long African American freedom struggle, Raiford also explores how the recirculation of these indelible images in political campaigns and art exhibits both adds to and complicates our memory of the events. |Over the past one hundred years, Raiford argues, activists in the black freedom struggle have used photographic imagery both to gain political recognition and to develop a different visual vocabulary about black lives. Offering readings of the use of photography in the antilynching movement, the civil rights movement, and the black power movement, Raiford focuses on key transformations in technology, society, and politics to understand the evolution of photography's deployment in capturing white oppression, black resistance, and African American life.
Leigh Raiford is assistant professor of African American studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
