Portraits of a People: Picturing African Americans in the Nineteenth Century

by Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw

Recently, a number of cutting edge African American artists have investigated issues of race and American identity in their work, relying on the use of historical source material and the subversion of archaic media. This scrutiny of little known, yet uncannily familiar, racialized imagery by contemporary artists has created a renewed interest in the politics of nineteenth-century American art and the role of race in the visual discourse. Portraits...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295985712
• ISBN13: 9780295985718
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 183 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.1" x 11.0"