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Humane insight : looking at images of African American suffering and death / Courtney R. Baker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baker, Courtney, author.
- Series:
- New Black studies.
- New Black Studies Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Violence against--History--Pictorial works.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Social conditions--Pictorial works.
- Documentary photography--Social aspects--United States--History.
- Documentary photography.
- Photojournalism--Social aspects--United States--History.
- Photojournalism.
- Empathy--Social aspects--United States--History.
- Empathy.
- Racism--United States--History--20th century.
- Racism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (161 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana, [Illinois] : University of Illinois Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In the history of black America, the image of the mortal, wounded, and dead black body has long been looked at by others from a safe distance. Courtney Baker questions the relationship between the spectator and victim and urges viewers to move beyond the safety of the 'gaze' to cultivate a capacity for humane insight toward representations of human suffering.
- Contents:
- Slavery's suffering brought to light: New Orleans, 1834
- Framed and shamed: looking at the lynched body
- Emmett Till, justice, and the task of recognition
- Civil rights and battered bodies
- A litany for New Orleans, 2005.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780252097591
- 0252097599
- OCLC:
- 919012880
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