Colored Pictures: Race and Visual Representation

by Michael D. Harris

Book Overview

In this book, artist and art historian Michael Harris investigates the role of visual representation in the construction of black identities, both real and imagined, in the United States. He focuses particularly on how African American artists have responded to--and even used--stereotypical images in their own works.

Harris shows how, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, racial stereotypes became the dominant mode through which African...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807856967
• ISBN13: 9780807856963
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 281 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.2" x 10.4"