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  1. The matter of Black living
    the aesthetic experiment of racial data, 1880-1930
    Author: Womack, Autumn
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  University of Chicago Press, Chicago ; London

    "What did the "Negro problem," as it was called at the turn of the twentieth century, look like? Autumn Womack's study examines efforts to visualize Black social life through new technologies and disciplines-from photography and film to statistics-in... more

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    "What did the "Negro problem," as it was called at the turn of the twentieth century, look like? Autumn Womack's study examines efforts to visualize Black social life through new technologies and disciplines-from photography and film to statistics-in the decades between 1880 and 1930. Womack describes nothing less than a "racial data revolution," one in which social scientists, reformers, and theorists rendered Black life an inanimate object of inquiry. At the very same time, Black cultural producers staged their own kind of revolution, undisciplining racial data in ways that challenged normative visual regimes and capturing the dynamism of Black social life. Womack focuses on figures like W.E.B DuBois, Kelly Miller, Sutton Griggs, and Zora Neale Hurston, as well as lesser-known editors, social reformers, and performers. She shows how they harnessed media as diverse as the social survey, the novel, the stage, and early motion pictures to reform visual practices and recalibrate the relationship between data and black life"--

     
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  2. The matter of Black living
    the aesthetic experiment of racial data, 1880-1930
    Author: Womack, Autumn
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  The University of Chicago Press, Chicago

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    Universität Mainz, Bereichsbibliothek Georg Forster-Gebäude / USA-Bibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780226806914; 9780226806747
    Subjects: Film; Literatur; Fotografie; Schwarze <Motiv>
    Scope: 270 Seiten, 4 ungezählte Blatt, Illustrationen