Martin A Berger
Biographic Data
| ID | 3950345 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin A Berger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin A |
| FAMILY NAME | Berger |
| SIGNATURE | BERGER M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Photography, History, and the Historian
Seeing through Race
Seeing through Race is a boldly original reinterpretation of the iconic photographs of the black civil rights struggle. Martin A. Berger’s provocative and groundbreaking study shows how the very pictures credited with arousing white sympathy, and thereby paving the way for civil rights legislation, actually limited the scope of racial reform in the 1960s. Berger analyzes many of these famous images—dogs and fire hoses turned against peaceful blac…
Race,Visuality, and History
The anatomy of the Early Republic
The essay explores the cultural functions of the many dismembered bodies that haunt the visual culture of late eighteenth‐ and early nineteenth‐century America. Body parts routinely appeared on signs for taverns, guildhalls and shops, in delicate painted miniatures depicting isolated eyes and mouths, in political prints illustrating the dismembered bodies of women and animals as stand‐ins for states and colonies, and in large‐scale history painti…
Never one Nation
Book Review| October 01 2006 Never one Nation: Freaks, Savages, and Whiteness in U.S. Popular Culture, 1850-1877 Never one Nation: Freaks, Savages, and Whiteness in U.S. Popular Culture, 1850-1877, Linda Frost. Martin A. Berger Martin A. Berger Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2006) 26 (1): 94–95. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501786 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedI…
"Modernity and Gender in Thomas Eakins's "Swimming
John Singleton Copley
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John Singleton Copley
"Modernity and Gender in Thomas Eakins's "Swimming
Never one Nation
Book Review| October 01 2006 Never one Nation: Freaks, Savages, and Whiteness in U.S. Popular Culture, 1850-1877 Never one Nation: Freaks, Savages, and Whiteness in U.S. Popular Culture, 1850-1877, Linda Frost. Martin A. Berger Martin A. Berger Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2006) 26 (1): 94–95. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501786 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedI…
The anatomy of the Early Republic
The essay explores the cultural functions of the many dismembered bodies that haunt the visual culture of late eighteenth‐ and early nineteenth‐century America. Body parts routinely appeared on signs for taverns, guildhalls and shops, in delicate painted miniatures depicting isolated eyes and mouths, in political prints illustrating the dismembered bodies of women and animals as stand‐ins for states and colonies, and in large‐scale history painti…
Race,Visuality, and History
Seeing through Race
Seeing through Race is a boldly original reinterpretation of the iconic photographs of the black civil rights struggle. Martin A. Berger’s provocative and groundbreaking study shows how the very pictures credited with arousing white sympathy, and thereby paving the way for civil rights legislation, actually limited the scope of racial reform in the 1960s. Berger analyzes many of these famous images—dogs and fire hoses turned against peaceful blac…
Photography, History, and the Historian
Art (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Art history (4 works) · History (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Photography and Visual Culture (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · History (2 works) · Library science (2 works)