American archives
| Titel: | American archives : gender, race, and class in visual culture / Shawn Michelle Smith |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Princeton, NJ : Princeton Univ. Press, 1999 |
| Umfang: | XI, 299 S. : Ill. |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| ISBN: | 0691004773 ; 0691004781 ; 9780691004785 |
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- List of Illustrations
- p. ix
- Acknowledgments
- p. xii
- Introduction American Archives
- p. 3
- Chapter 1
- Prying Eyes and Middle-Class Magic in The House of the Seven Gables
- p. 11
- "Magnetic" Daguerreotypes and the Masculine Gaze
- p. 12
- Evil Eyes and Feminine Essence
- p. 19
- Making the House a Home
- p. 24
- The Public Private Sphere
- p. 26
- Chapter 2
- The Properties of Blood
- p. 29
- The Blood That Flows in Subterranean Pipes
- p. 31
- Blood, Character, and Race
- p. 41
- The Spectacle of Race
- p. 45
- Seeing Bloodlines
- p. 47
- Chapter 3
- Superficial Depths
- p. 51
- The Portrait and the Likeness. Photographing the Soul
- p. 55
- Class Acts: Real Things and True Performances
- p. 62
- The Criminal Body and the Portrait of a Type
- p. 68
- Consuming Commodities: Gender in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
- p. 93
- Chapter 4
- "Baby's Picture Is Always Treasured": Eugenics and the Reproduction of Whiteness in the Family Photograph Album
- p. 113
- Mechanically Reproducing Baby
- p. 115
- Reproducing Racial Inheritance
- p. 122
- Sentimental Aura and the Evidence of Race
- p. 132
- Chapter 5
- America Coursing through Her Veins
- p. 136
- From the Bonds of Love to Bloodlines
- p. 137
- America's White Aristocracy
- p. 141
- In the Name of White Womanhood
- p. 144
- "A Heritage Unique in the Ages"
- p. 150
- Chapter 6
- Photographing the "American Negro": Nation, Race, and Photography at the Paris Exposition of 1900
- p. 157
- Racialized Bodies, National Character, and Photographic Documentation
- p. 158
- Making Americans
- p. 167
- Conserving Race in the Nation
- p. 177
- Chapter 7
- Looking Back: Pauline Hopkins's Challenge to Eugenics
- p. 187
- Envisioning Race: Bodies on Display in Hagar's Daughter "Sons of One Father"
- p. 194
- Excavating the Hidden Self
- p. 198
- Visions beyond the Color Line
- p. 203
- Chapter 8
- Reconfiguring a Masculine Gaze
- p. 206
- Visions of Commodified Identity in Consumer Culture
- p. 207
- Conspicuous Consumption under a Masculine Gaze: Rethinking Gender in Sister Carrie
- p. 210
- Parting Glances
- p. 220
- Afterimages A Brief Look at American Visual Culture in the 1990s
- p. 222
- Notes
- p. 227
- Bibliography
- p. 271
- Index
- p. 291