The matter of Black living : the aesthetic experiment of racial data, 1880-1930 /

What did the "Negro problem," as it was called at the turn of the twentieth century, look like? Autumn Womack's study examines efforts to visualize Black social life through new technologies and disciplines, from photography and film to statistics, in the decades between 1880 and 1930...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Womack, Autumn (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2022].
Subjects:	African Americans in literature. African Americans in motion pictures. African Americans in art. American literature > 20th century > History and criticism. Motion pictures > United States > History > 20th century. Photography > United States > History > 20th century. African Americans > Social life and customs > 19th century. African Americans > Social life and customs > 20th century. Social surveys > United States.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: data and the matter of Black life
The social survey: the survey spirit
Photography: looking out
Film: overexposure
Coda: racial datas afterlives.