Beschreibung:
Shawn Michelle Smith is Associate Professor of American Studies at Saint Louis University. She is the author of American Archives: Gender, Race, and Class in Visual Culture.
An exploration of the visual meaning of the color line and racial politics through the analysis of archival photographs collected by W.E.B. Du Bois and exhibited at the Paris Exposition of 1900.
List of Illustrations ixAcknowledgments xvINTRODUCTIONPhotography on the Color Line 1CHAPTER ONE>Envisioning Race 25CHAPTER TWOThe Art of Scientific Propaganda 43CHAPTER THREE"Families of Undoubted Respectability" 7CHAPTER FOURSpectacles of Whiteness:>EPILOGUEThe Archivist in the Archive 147Notes 161Bibliography 203Index 217