Black and White and Read All Over
Photography and the Voices of Richard Wright
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4275580 |
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| Authors | Jason Puskar (0000-0003-2267-7226, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 167-183 |
| Publication date | 2016-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mosaic (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0027-1276 • E-ISSN: 1925-5683 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/mos.2016.a621134 |
| OpenAlex | W2438531984 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
Richard Wright’s 1941 photo-text 12 Million Black Voices reveals a deep conflict between traditional African-American commitments to language and literacy and new possibilities emerging in the medium of photography. Ironically, given its integrationist stance, Black Voices reconstitutes the social separation of races as a separation of media forms
African american · Art · Art history · Literacy · Media studies · Pedagogy · Photography · Sociology · Visual arts · White (mutation) · Wright · Anthropology · Art, Politics, and Modernism · History · Photography and Visual Culture · Visual Culture and Art Theory
| Highly cited | No |
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