To Be Beautiful in Light: The Role of Photography in Shaping the Modern Black Identity
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Date of Lecture
11-14-2013
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Armstrong State University, A Moveable Feast, The Beach Institute
Description of Lecture
This lecture explores the ways in which the photograph has been used to create and shape perceptions of African-American identity in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. From W.E.B. Du Bois to Alain Locke to Langston Hughes, the notion of what it means to be an African-American has been shaped by photographic and literary representations of black scholars, artists, and politicians. Mason will examine how visual images establish and continually reinforce collective and individual African-American identities.
Recommended Citation
Mason, Laura, "To Be Beautiful in Light: The Role of Photography in Shaping the Modern Black Identity" (2013). A Moveable Feast (2013-2017). 15.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/armstrong-moveable-feast/15
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The Beach Institute
502 E. Harris Street Lauren Mason, Assistant Professor of Literature and African-American Studies