Partial Portraits
African Americans in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22007570 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jasmine Nichole Cobb (corresponding author), Jasmine Cobb |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 503-527 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of the Civil War Era (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2159-9807 • E-ISSN: 2154-4727 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/cwe.2022.0066 |
| OpenAlex | W4308899564 |
| Language | EN |
This essay considers seemingly benign illustrations from nineteenth-century sources, which scholars might be inclined to reproduce for evidentiary use. It critiques representations of African Americans in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine . Through an analysis of portrayals of slavery, it discusses image composition and production to argue that as a visual archive of the nineteenth century, the periodical is an incomplete and misrepresentative evidence source on African Americans
African american · Art · Art history · Ethnology · Literature · Portrait · Sociology · American History and Culture · History · Literature and Culture Studies · Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis
| Highly cited | No |
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