Colored pictures : race and visual representation / Michael D. Harris ; foreword by Moyo Okediji.

Author/creator Harris, Michael D.
Format Book
Publication InfoChapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2003.
Descriptionxiv, 281 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Subjects

Contents Black: the discredited signifier/signified -- Constructing and visualizing race -- The nineteenth century: imaged ideology -- Aunt Jemima, the fantasy black mammy/servant -- Jezebel, Olympia, and the sexualized woman -- Color lines: mapping color consciousness in the art of Archibald J. Motley, Jr.-- The language of appropriation: fantasies and fallacies -- Turning in from the periphery.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [259]-274) and index.
LCCN 2002009070
ISBN0807827606 (cloth : alk. paper)