Colored pictures : race and visual representation / Michael D. Harris ; foreword by Moyo Okediji.
| Author/creator | Harris, Michael D. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2003. |
| Description | xiv, 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 note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-274) and index. |
| LCCN | 2002009070 |
| ISBN | 0807827606 (cloth : alk. paper) |