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On Racial Icons : Blackness and the Public Imagination / Nicole R. Fleetwood.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: PinpointsPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (144 p.) : 33 photographsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780813565156
  • 9780813565132
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.23089/96073 23
LOC classification:
  • P94.5.A37 F54 2015
  • P94.5.A37 F54 2015eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. "I Am Trayvon Martin": The Boy Who Became an Icon -- Chapter 2. Democracy's Promise: The Black Political Leader as Icon -- Chapter 3. Giving Face: Diana Ross and the Black Celebrity as Icon -- Chapter 4. The Black Athlete: Racial Precarity and the American Sports Icon -- Coda -- Notes
Summary: What meaning does the American public attach to images of key black political, social, and cultural figures? Considering photography's role as a means of documenting historical progress, what is the representational currency of these images? How do racial icons "signify"? Nicole R. Fleetwood's answers to these questions will change the way you think about the next photograph that you see depicting a racial event, black celebrity, or public figure. In On Racial Icons, Fleetwood focuses a sustained look on photography in documenting black public life, exploring the ways in which iconic images function as celebrations of national and racial progress at times or as a gauge of collective racial wounds in moments of crisis. Offering an overview of photography's ability to capture shifting race relations, Fleetwood spotlights in each chapter a different set of iconic images in key sectors of public life. She considers flash points of racialized violence in photographs of Trayvon Martin and Emmett Till; the political, aesthetic, and cultural shifts marked by the rise of pop stars such as Diana Ross; and the power and precarity of such black sports icons as Serena Williams and LeBron James; and she does not miss Barack Obama and his family along the way. On Racial Icons is an eye-opener in every sense of the phrase. Images from the book. (http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/pages/Fleetwood.aspx)
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. "I Am Trayvon Martin": The Boy Who Became an Icon -- Chapter 2. Democracy's Promise: The Black Political Leader as Icon -- Chapter 3. Giving Face: Diana Ross and the Black Celebrity as Icon -- Chapter 4. The Black Athlete: Racial Precarity and the American Sports Icon -- Coda -- Notes

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What meaning does the American public attach to images of key black political, social, and cultural figures? Considering photography's role as a means of documenting historical progress, what is the representational currency of these images? How do racial icons "signify"? Nicole R. Fleetwood's answers to these questions will change the way you think about the next photograph that you see depicting a racial event, black celebrity, or public figure. In On Racial Icons, Fleetwood focuses a sustained look on photography in documenting black public life, exploring the ways in which iconic images function as celebrations of national and racial progress at times or as a gauge of collective racial wounds in moments of crisis. Offering an overview of photography's ability to capture shifting race relations, Fleetwood spotlights in each chapter a different set of iconic images in key sectors of public life. She considers flash points of racialized violence in photographs of Trayvon Martin and Emmett Till; the political, aesthetic, and cultural shifts marked by the rise of pop stars such as Diana Ross; and the power and precarity of such black sports icons as Serena Williams and LeBron James; and she does not miss Barack Obama and his family along the way. On Racial Icons is an eye-opener in every sense of the phrase. Images from the book. (http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/pages/Fleetwood.aspx)

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)