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Author
Publisher
Adams Media, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Adams Media trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
223 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From reparations to the prison industrial complex and redlining, there are a lot of high-level concepts to systemic racism that are hard to digest. At a time where everyone is inundated with information on structural racism, it can be hard to know where to start or how to visualize the disenfranchisement of BIPOC Americans. In Systemic Racism 101, you will find infographic spreads alongside explanatory text to help you visualize and truly understand...
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
251 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement is a paradigm-shifting publication that presents the Civil Rights Movement through the work of nine activist photographers - men and women who chose to document the national struggle against segregation and other forms within the movement. Unlike images produced by photojournalists, who covered breaking news events, these photographers lived within the movement - and documented...
Author
Description
From maps, monuments, and architectural features to stamps and currency, images of Native Americans have been used again and again on visual expressions of American national identity since before the country's founding. In this in-depth study, C©♭cile R. Ganteaume argues that these representations are not empty symbols but reflect how official and semi-official government institutions -- from the U.S. Army and the Department of the Treasury to...
Author
Publisher
National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
184 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
From maps, monuments, and architectural features to stamps and currency, images of Native Americans have been used again and again on visual expressions of American national identity since before the country's founding. In this in-depth study, Cécile R. Ganteaume argues that these representations are not empty symbols but reflect how official and semi-official government institutions -- from the U.S. Army and the Department of the Treasury to the...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
160 pages : chiefly illustrations, portraits ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"The best-known images of the civil rights struggle show black Americans as nonthreatening victims of white aggression. Though this imagery helped garner the sympathy of liberal whites in the North for the plight of blacks, it did so by preserving a picture of whites as powerful and blacks as hapless victims. Freedom Now! showcases photographs rarely seen in the mainstream media, which depict the power wielded by black men, women and children in remaking...