Title On racial icons : blackness and the public imagination / Nicole R. Fleetwood.

Publication Info.	New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2015]
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Description	1 online resource (xii, 128 pages) : illustrations.
Series	Pinpoints: complex topics, concise explanations ; [2]
	Pinpoints (Series)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
Summary	Explores visual culture and race in the United States, focusing in particular on the significance of photography to document black public life. Examines America's fascination with representing and seeing race in a myriad of contexts as emblematic of national and racial progress at best, or as a gauge of a collective racial wound.
Contents	Introduction -- "I am Trayvon Martin": the boy who became an icon -- Democracy's promise: The black political leader as icon -- Giving face: Diana Ross and the black celebrity as icon -- The black athlete: Racial precarity and the American sports icon -- Coda.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	African Americans in mass media.
	African American celebrities.
	African Americans -- Race identity.
	Black people -- Race identity.
	African Americans -- Social conditions -- 1975-
	Art and race.
	Mass media -- Social aspects -- United States.
	Visual communication -- United States.
	United States -- Race relations.
	PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global)
	African American celebrities. (OCoLC)fst01742988
	African Americans in mass media. (OCoLC)fst00799731
	African Americans -- Race identity. (OCoLC)fst00799666
	African Americans -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst00799698
	Art and race. (OCoLC)fst00815423
	Black people -- Race identity. (OCoLC)fst00833987
	Mass media -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01011303
	Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
	Visual communication. (OCoLC)fst01167997
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term	Since 1975
Other Form:	Print version: Fleetwood, Nicole R. On racial icons. New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2015] 9780813565156 (OCoLC)893709675
ISBN	9780813565132 (electronic bk.)
	0813565138 (electronic bk.)

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