Synopses & Reviews
Includes bibliographical references (p. 404-408) and index.
Table of Contents
Racial time, racial marks, racial metaphors /Coco Fusco --The theoretical status of the concept of race /Howard Winant --I. LOOKING UP/LOOKING DOWN --The traffic in photographs /Allan Sekula --The shadow and the substance: race, photography and the index /Nicholas Mirzoeff --Looking for empire in the U.S. colonial archive /Javier Morillo-Alicea --II. ASSIMILATE/IMPERSONATE --Black bodies, white science: Louis Agassiz's slave daguerreotypes /Brian Wallis --Prairie pinups: reconsidering historic portraits of American Indian women /Aleta M. Ringlero --No-movies: the art of false documents /C. Ondine Chavoya --III. HUMANIZE/FETISHIZE --Skin head sex thing: racial difference and the homoerotic imaginary /Kobena Mercer --The consumption of lynching images /Leigh Raiford --Exposure /Deborah Willis --IV. ALL FOR ONE/ONE FOR ALL --On the matter of whiteness /Richard Dyer --Autonomy and the archive in America: reexamining the intersection of photography and stereotype /Lauri Firstenberg --Toyo Miyatake and "our world" /Karin Higa --Passing likeness: Dorothea Lange's "migrant mother" and the paradox of iconicity /Sally Stein --V. PROGRESS/REGRESS --Where truth ends and fantasy begins: postcards from the South Pacific /Caroline Vercoe --Morphologies: race as a visual technology /Jennifer Gonzâalez.