Indians Illustrated : The Image of Native Americans in the Pictorial Press / John M. Coward.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coward, John M., author.

Series:

History of communication.

The history of communication

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular culture--United States--History.

Popular culture.

Public opinion--United States--History.

Public opinion.

Indians in popular culture--United States--History.

Indians in popular culture.

Stereotypes (Social psychology)--United States--History.

Stereotypes (Social psychology).

Visual communication--United States--History.

Visual communication.

Journalism, Pictorial--Social aspects--United States--History.

Journalism, Pictorial.

Illustrated periodicals--United States--History.

Illustrated periodicals.

Indians of North America--Public opinion--History.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Press coverage--History.

United States--Race relations--History.

United States.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana, Illinois ; Chicago, Illinois ; Springfield, Illinois : University of Illinois Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Indians Illustrated is a social and cultural history of Indian illustrations in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, Harper's Weekly, and other illustrated journals during the last half of the nineteenth century, the heyday of the American pictorial press. The pictorial press era, spurred in the mid-1850s by the transportation revolution, innovations in printing technology, and an expanded literary and pictorial market, was marked by a proliferation of detailed, realistic woodblock engravings, pictures of newsworthy people and interesting events from across the nation and the world. The pictorial press frequently depicted Indians and Indian life in popular but narrowly conceived ways. In pictures, Indians were simplified and presented in familiar and easily understood categories, usually as variations on the 'good' Indian/'bad' Indian stereotypes long established in Euro-American culture. Indian men were depicted as 'tall and copper-colored, with braided hair, clothed in buckskin, and moccasins, and adorned in headdresses, beadwork and/or turquoise' while Indian women were depicted as either Indian princesses or squaws. John Coward argues that these pictures helped create and sustain a host of popular ideas and attitudes about Indians, especially ideas about the way Indians were supposed to look and act. By describing and analyzing the various themes and visual tropes across the years of the illustrated press, this book provides a deeper understanding of the racial codes and visual signs that white Americans used to represent Native Americans in an era of western expansion and Manifest Destiny"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Illustrating Indians in the pictorial press

Posing the Indian : Native American portraits in the illustrated press

Illustrating Indian lives : difference and deficiency in Native American imagery

The princess and the squaw : the construction of Native American women in the pictorial press

Making images on the Indian frontier : the adventures of special artist Theodore Davis

Illustrating the Indian Wars : fact, fantasy, and ideology

Making sense of savagery : Native American cartoons in the Daily graphic

Remington's Indian illustrations : race, realism, and pictorial journalism

Visualizing race : Native American and African American imagery in Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper

Conclusion: Illustrating race, demonstrating difference.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780252098529

0252098528

OCLC:

944246492