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Katharine Capshaw - Civil Rights Childhood: Picturing Liberation in African American Photobooks - 9780816694044 - V9780816694044
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Civil Rights Childhood: Picturing Liberation in African American Photobooks

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Description for Civil Rights Childhood: Picturing Liberation in African American Photobooks Hardback. Num Pages: 384 pages, 71 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3; JFSP1; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 178 x 28. Weight in Grams: 839.

Childhood joy, pleasure, and creativity are not often associated with the civil rights movement. Their ties to the movement may have faded from historical memory, but these qualities received considerable photographic attention in that tumultuous era. Katharine Capshaw’s Civil Rights Childhood reveals how the black child has been—and continues to be—a social agent that demands change.

Because children carry a compelling aura of human value and potential, images of African American children in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education had a powerful effect on the fight for civil rights. In the iconography of Emmett Till and the girls ... Read more

Offering rich analysis, Capshaw recovers many obscure texts and photographs while at the same time placing major names like Langston Hughes, June Jordan, and Toni Morrison in dialogue with lesser-known writers. An important addition to thinking about representation and politics, Civil Rights Childhood ultimately shows how the photobook—and the aspirations of childhood itself—encourage cultural transformation.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816694044
SKU
V9780816694044
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Katharine Capshaw
Katharine Capshaw is associate professor of English at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. She is the author of Children’s Literature of the Harlem Renaissance, winner of the Children’s Literature Association’s 2004 award for best scholarly book.

Reviews for Civil Rights Childhood: Picturing Liberation in African American Photobooks
 "Katharine Capshaw’s new study—intersecting photography, children’s literature, and the civil rights movement—is a rich and strikingly original addition to the growing scholarship on African American childhood. Many scholars will appreciate and be indebted to this important work." —Gerald Early, Washington University in St. Louis "Capshaw’s analysis and contextualization of the works in question break entirely new ground, offering ... Read more

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