Indians Illustrated
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African American
American Indian
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Author_John M Coward
bias
cartoons
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Cheyenne
civilization
culture
deficiency
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fantasy
Fletcher Harper
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper
Frederic Remington
George Armstrong Custer
George Catlin
Harper's Weekly
ideology
illustrated newspapers
imagery
Indian
Mathew Brady
minority
Native American
nineteenth-century journalism
photography
pictorial press
Plains Indians
Pocahontas
popular culture
portraits
racial representation
racism
realism
savagery
scalping
Sioux
society
sociology
squaws
stereotypes
the American West
Theodore Davis
visual culture
W. M. Cary
war
women
Product details
- ISBN 9780252081712
- Weight: 513g
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 18 Jul 2016
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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After 1850, Americans swarmed to take in a raft of new illustrated journals and papers. Engravings and drawings of "buckskinned braves" and "Indian princesses" proved an immensely popular attraction for consumers of publications like Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper and Harper's Weekly . In Indians Illustrated , John M. Coward charts a social and cultural history of Native American illustrations--romantic, violent, racist, peaceful, and otherwise--in the heyday of the American pictorial press. These woodblock engravings and ink drawings placed Native Americans into categories that drew from venerable "good" Indian and "bad" Indian stereotypes already threaded through the culture. Coward's examples show how the genre cemented white ideas about how Indians should look and behave--ideas that diminished Native Americans' cultural values and political influence. His powerful analysis of themes and visual tropes unlocks the racial codes and visual cues that whites used to represent--and marginalize--native cultures already engaged in a twilight struggle against inexorable westward expansion.
John M. Coward is an associate professor of communication at the University of Tulsa. He is the author of The Newspaper Indian: Native American Identity in the Press, 1820–90.
