Early African American Print Culture–Now Available
08/01/2012
Early African American Print Culture Edited by Lara Langer Cohen and Jordan Alexander Stein 432 pages | 6 x 9 | 43 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4425-0 | $55.00… READ MORE
Tag: African American
Citizens of a Christian Nation–Now in Paperback
06/06/2012
Citizens of a Christian Nation: Evangelical Missions and the Problem of Race in the Nineteenth Century Derek Chang 248 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4218-8 |… READ MORE
Activism After Douglass–a Guest Post by Shawn Leigh Alexander
02/21/2012
This second guest blog post in our series on Frederick Douglass considers his legacy shortly after his death. Shawn Leigh Alexander, author of An Army of Lions: The Civil Rights… READ MORE
Douglass and the Daguerreotype–a Guest Post by Marcy J. Dinius
02/20/2012
In time, Douglass became so interested in the connection between the visual arts, imagination, humanity, and progress toward liberty and justice that he wrote and delivered a set of lectures on the subject between 1861 and 1865. He began both the earlier and the later versions of his “Lecture on Pictures” with an extended consideration of the daguerreotype. After being daguerreotyped multiple times in the 1840s and 1850s, the former slave had become a man in his daguerreian portrait. His lectures suggest that if his audiences were to look at his or any other African American’s image and reflect on its likeness to their own, the daguerreotype would show them the reality of blacks’ humanity and awaken them to their own.
