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1 Online-Ressource (270 Seiten, 7 ungezählte Seiten) :
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ISBN:
978-0-226-80688-4
Inhalt:
"What did the "Negro problem," as it was called at the turn of the twentieth century, look like? Autumn Womack's study examines efforts to visualize Black social life through new technologies and disciplines-from photography and film to statistics-in the decades between 1880 and 1930. Womack describes nothing less than a "racial data revolution," one in which social scientists, reformers, and theorists rendered Black life an inanimate object of inquiry. At the very same time, Black cultural producers staged their own kind of revolution, undisciplining racial data in ways that challenged normative visual regimes and capturing the dynamism of Black social life. Womack focuses on figures like W.E.B DuBois, Kelly Miller, Sutton Griggs, and Zora Neale Hurston, as well as lesser-known editors, social reformers, and performers. She shows how they harnessed media as diverse as the social survey, the novel, the stage, and early motion pictures to reform visual practices and recalibrate the relationship between data and black life"--
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction: data and the matter of Black life -- The social survey: the survey spirit -- Photography: looking out -- Film: overexposure -- Coda: racial datas afterlives
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-0-226-80674-7
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ISBN 9780226806914
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Paperback ISBN 978-0-226-80691-4
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ISBN 9780226806914
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Amerikanistik
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Soziologie
Schlagwort(e):
Film
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Literatur
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Fotografie
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Schwarze
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Criticism, interpretation, etc
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History
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Criticism, interpretation, etc
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History
