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American Archives : Gender, Race, and Class in Visual Culture by Smith, Shawn Michelle, 1965- is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is American Archives : Gender, Race, and Class in Visual Culture about?
Visual texts uniquely demonstrate the contested terms of American identity. In American Archives Shawn Michelle Smith offers a bold and disturbing account of how photography and the sciences of biological racialism joined forces in the nineteenth century to offer an idea of what Americans look like--or "should" look like. Her varied sources, which include the middle-class portrait, baby picture, criminal mugshot, and eugenicist record, as well as literary, scientific, and popular texts, enable h
Who reads American Archives : Gender, Race, and Class in Visual Culture?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Smith, Shawn Michelle, 1965-
- Publisher
- Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780691004785
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Photography, History, Arts
- Updated
- 2026-03-16
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