Postcards from the Edge of the Color Line
Images of African Americans in Popular Culture, 1893-1917
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2481095 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wayne Martin Mellinger (University of California, Santa Cruz, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 413-433 |
| Publication date | 1992-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Symbolic Interaction (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0195-6086 • E-ISSN: 1533-8665 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/si.1992.15.4.413 |
| OpenAlex | W2129492034 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 30 |
This paper examines visual representations of African Americans on postcards from 1893 to World War I. Caricatures of African Americans found on these popular cultural artifacts frequently employ the visual metaphor of other-as-beast. To map the discursive features of this form of racist ideology, attention is paid to the icono-graphic and linguistic strategies employed to depict African Americans as physically, intellectually, and temperamentally distinct and inferior. While no oppositional readings to this racist discourse were located in the flip-side messages of the senders, resistance was located in the contemporaneous popular culture of African Americans
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| Citations per year | 0.24 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1992 - 2021 (30) |
| Highly cited | No |