Picturing us : African American identity in photography /
In 18 stimulating essays, black writers, scholars and critics reflect on individual photographs-often a family snapshot-to address questions of black identity.
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New York :
The New Press,
[1994]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : picturing us / Deborah Willis
- When you meet Estella Smart, you been met! / Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor
- A Sunday portrait / Edward P. Jones
- In our glory : photography and Black life / bell hooks
- In my father's house there were no images / E. Ethelbert Miller
- Gazing colored : a family album / Christian Walker
- Grandmother's face and the legacy of Pomegranate Hall / Adele Logan Alexander
- My grandmother died last night / Lisé Hamilton
- The plaintiff speaks / Clarissa T. Sligh
- Finding a space for myself in my film about color consciousness / Kathe Sandler
- Affirmative action and the white backlash : notes from a child of apartheid / Luke Charles Harris
- The erotic image is naked and dark / Carla Williams
- Mug shot : suspicious person / Claudine K. Brown
- The continuing drama of African American images in American cinema / St. Clair Bourne
- How come nobody told me about the lynching? / Jacquie Jones
- Hard core poverty / Paul A. Rogers
- Afro images : politics, fashion, and nostalgia / Angela Y. Davis
- Making noise : Marcus Garvey Dada, August 1922 / Robert A. Hill.