Pictures and Progress explores how, during the nineteenth century and the early twentieth, promin...

Photography is one of the principal filters through which we engage the world. The contributors t...

The advent of photography revolutionized perception, making visible what was once impossible to s...

Through a rich interpretation of the remarkable photographs W. E. B. Du Bois compiled for the Ame...

In Photographic Returns Shawn Michelle Smith traces how historical moments of racial crisis come ...

Visual texts uniquely demonstrate the contested terms of American identity. In American Archives ...

Photography is one of the principal filters through which we engage the world. The contributors t...

Shawn Michelle Smith is Associate Professor of Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the A...

An exploration of the visual meaning of the color line and racial politics through the analysis o...

Maurice O. Wallace is Associate Professor of English and African & African American Studies at Du...

''Photography on the Color Line' should be widely read and widely taught. In this outstanding boo...

Shawn Michelle Smith is Associate Professor of Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the A...