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Indians Illustrated: The Image of Native Americans in the Pictorial Press
John M. Coward
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Description for Indians Illustrated: The Image of Native Americans in the Pictorial Press
Hardback. Series: History of Communication. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; DNJ; HBTB; JFD; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 187 x 262 x 20. Weight in Grams: 648.
After 1850, Americans swarmed to take in a raft of new illustrated journals and papers. Engravings and drawings of buckskinned braves and Indian princesses proved an immensely popular attraction for consumers of publications like Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper and Harper's Weekly . In Indians Illustrated , John M. Coward charts a social and cultural history of Native American illustrations--romantic, violent, racist, peaceful, and otherwise--in the heyday of the American pictorial press. These woodblock engravings and ink drawings placed Native Americans into categories that drew from venerable good Indian and bad Indian stereotypes already threaded through the culture. Coward's examples show how the genre cemented white ideas about how Indians should look and behave--ideas that diminished Native Americans' cultural values and political influence. His powerful analysis of themes and visual tropes unlocks the racial codes and visual cues that whites used to represent--and marginalize--native cultures already engaged in a twilight struggle against inexorable westward expansion.
Product Details
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
History of Communication
Condition
New
Weight
648g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252040269
SKU
V9780252040269
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About John M. Coward
John M. Coward is an associate professor of communication at the University of Tulsa. He is the author of The Newspaper Indian: Native American Identity in the Press, 1820 90 .
Reviews for Indians Illustrated: The Image of Native Americans in the Pictorial Press
Coward provides a fascinating look at how powerful the visual image can be on the development of cultural attitudes. Indians Illustrated not only provides a crucial study for scholars of Native American culture but is also very useful as a text for scholars of race, anthropology, popular culture, and visual studies.
H-Net Reviews Indians Illustrated is a good introduction to the concept that images of Native Americans in the nineteenth century popular press were constructed, framed, and viewed through Anglo-European American eyes and that the imagery has much less to do with real Native American life, history, or people than it has to do with the self-perception and self-ideation of its mainstream colonial counterpart.
Journal of American Culture The author's work is a revelation, and with its many illustrations, a journey in time. Read enough of it, and you will be questioning the historical veracity of any illustration you see from the late 19th century.
Journalism and Mass Communication Education The book charts new territory, offers important new insights on a topic that deserves further examination, and opens doors to subsequent research for scholars and graduate students.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal In Indians Illustrated, Coward not only has written a book that clearly and decisively achieves the primary objective of providing a history of the development and consequences of Native American stereotypes, but he also provides a framework useful for anyone who seeks to understand stereotyping of any group in American media.
Journalism History Coward provides a fascinating look at how powerful the visual image can be on the development of cultural attitudes.
Jhistory
H-Net Reviews Indians Illustrated is a good introduction to the concept that images of Native Americans in the nineteenth century popular press were constructed, framed, and viewed through Anglo-European American eyes and that the imagery has much less to do with real Native American life, history, or people than it has to do with the self-perception and self-ideation of its mainstream colonial counterpart.
Journal of American Culture The author's work is a revelation, and with its many illustrations, a journey in time. Read enough of it, and you will be questioning the historical veracity of any illustration you see from the late 19th century.
Journalism and Mass Communication Education The book charts new territory, offers important new insights on a topic that deserves further examination, and opens doors to subsequent research for scholars and graduate students.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal In Indians Illustrated, Coward not only has written a book that clearly and decisively achieves the primary objective of providing a history of the development and consequences of Native American stereotypes, but he also provides a framework useful for anyone who seeks to understand stereotyping of any group in American media.
Journalism History Coward provides a fascinating look at how powerful the visual image can be on the development of cultural attitudes.
Jhistory