Visualizing equality : African American rights and visual culture in the nineteenth century / Aston Gonzalez.
Material type:
TextSeries: John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culturePublication details: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2020]Description: xiv, 307 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: - 9781469659961
- 1469659964
- African American art -- 19th century -- Political aspects
- African American artists -- Political activity -- 19th century
- African Americans in art
- Art and race
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 19th century
- African Americans -- Race identity -- History -- 19th century
- Politics in art
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Library Company of Philadelphia Graphic Arts Department Reading Room | Print Room Ii4 A6464.O | Checked out | 08/06/2026 | 0020230723364 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Pictured appeals, social reformers -- Graphic exchanges: Robert Douglass Jr.'s activism in Philadelphia -- Picturing black fugitivity and respectability in New York City -- Compositions of no ordinary merit and the struggle for black rights -- Spectacular activism: black abolitionists and their moving panoramas -- The optics of Liberian emigration -- Freedom and citizenship: conflicting views of wartime -- Religion, rights, and the promises of Reconstruction -- Epilogue.