Picture freedom : remaking Black visuality in the early nineteenth century /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Cobb, Jasmine Nichole (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : New York University Press, [2015]
Series:	America and the long 19th century.
Subjects:	Free African Americans > History > 19th century. Free African Americans > History > 19th century > Pictorial works. Pictures > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century. Slavery > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century. African Americans > History > To 1863. Visual communication > United States > History > 19th century. Popular culture > United States > History > 19th century. African Americans in popular culture > History > 19th century. Racism in popular culture > United States > History > 19th century. United States > Race relations > History > 19th century.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Parlor fantasies, parlor nightmares
A peculiarly "ocular" institution
Optics of respectability : spectatorship in the Black private sphere
Look! a Negress : public women, private horrors and the white ontology of the gaze
Racial iconography : freedom and Black citizenship in antebellum public cultures
Racing the transatlantic parlor : blackness at home and abroad
Epilogue: The specter of Black freedom.