Bibliograph

Seeing through race, a reinterpretation of civil rights photography, Martin A. Berger ; foreword by David J. Garrow

Type

Label

Seeing through race, a reinterpretation of civil rights photography, Martin A. Berger ; foreword by David J. Garrow

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-221) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Seeing through race

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

664837984

Responsibility statement

Martin A. Berger ; foreword by David J. Garrow

Sub title

a reinterpretation of civil rights photography

Summary

"Seeing through Race" is a boldly original reinterpretation of the iconic photographs of the black civil rights struggle. Martin A. Berger's provocative and groundbreaking study shows how the very pictures credited with arousing white sympathy, and thereby paving the way for civil rights legislation, actually limited the scope of racial reform in the 1960s. Berger analyzes many of these famous images - dogs and fire hoses turned against peaceful black marchers in Birmingham, tear gas and clubs wielded against voting-rights marchers in Selma - and argues that because white sympathy was dependent on photographs of powerless blacks, these unforgettable pictures undermined efforts to enact - or even imagine - reforms that threatened to upend the racial balance of power

Table Of Contents

Introduction : the iconic photographs of civil rights -- The formulas of documentary photography -- White shame, white empathy -- Perfect victims and imperfect tactics -- The lost images of civil rights

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