TY - BOOK AU - Cobb,Jasmine Nichole TI - Picture freedom: remaking Black visuality in the early nineteenth century T2 - America and the Long 19th Century SN - 9781479830619 AV - E185.18 .C62 2015eb U1 - 305.896/073009034 23 PY - 2015/// CY - New York PB - New York University Press KW - Racism in popular culture KW - United States KW - History KW - 19th century KW - African Americans in popular culture KW - Popular culture KW - Visual communication KW - African Americans KW - To 1863 KW - Slavery KW - Social aspects KW - Pictures KW - Free African Americans KW - Pictorial works KW - Racisme dans la culture populaire KW - États-Unis KW - Histoire KW - 19e siècle KW - Noirs américains dans la culture populaire KW - Culture populaire KW - Communication visuelle KW - Noirs américains KW - Jusqu'à 1863 KW - Illustrations, images, etc KW - Aspect social KW - Noirs américains affranchis KW - Ouvrages illustrés KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - Discrimination & Race Relations KW - bisacsh KW - Minority Studies KW - fast KW - Race relations KW - Relations raciales KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: Parlor fantasies, parlor nightmares -- A peculiarly "ocular" institution -- Optics of respectability : spectatorship in the Black private sphere -- Look! a Negress : public women, private horrors and the white ontology of the gaze -- Racial iconography : freedom and Black citizenship in antebellum public cultures -- Racing the transatlantic parlor : blackness at home and abroad -- Epilogue: The specter of Black freedom N2 - "Picture Freedom provides a unique and nuanced interpretation of nineteenth-century African American life and culture. Focusing on visuality, print culture, and an examination of the parlor, Cobb has fashioned a book like none other, convincingly demonstrating how whites and blacks reimagined racial identity and belonging in the early republic."--Erica Armstrong Dunbar, author of A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=966085 ER -