Through a lens darkly : Black photographers and the emergence of a people / Through a Lens Darkly, LLC ; Ford Foundation ; ITVS ; National Black Programming Consortium ; k. media ;...

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Imprisoned in a luminous glare : photography and the African American freedom struggle / Leigh Raiford. by Raiford, Leigh

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Powerful days : the civil rights photography of Charles Moore / text by Michael S. Durham ; introduction by Andrew Young. by Durham, Michael S. (Michael Schelling), 1935-

Black Boston : documentary photography and the African American experience / exhibition and catalogue by Kim Sichel ; with an essay by Edmund Barry Gaither. by Sichel, Kim

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This Far and No Further Photographs Inspired by the Voting Rights Movement. by Abranowicz, William

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Always for pleasure / Flower Films presents a film by Les Blank ; produced and directed, photographed and edited by Les Blank ; additional editing, photography by Maureen Gosling.

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A Choice of Weapons, Inspired by Gordon Parks / Home Box Office.

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Little white lie / Truth Aid Media presents ; a film by Lacey Schwartz ; a co-production of OTB Productions LLC and the Independent Television Service (ITVS) ; written, produced &...

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Advancing the civil rights movement : race and geography of Life magazine's visual representation, 1954-1965 / Michael DiBari Jr. by DiBari, Michael

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Humane insight : looking at images of African American suffering and death / Courtney R. Baker. by Baker, Courtney

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Signs of the times : the visual politics of Jim Crow / Elizabeth Abel. by Abel, Elizabeth, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Jim Crow's cultural turns -- American graffiti : the social life of Jim Crow signs -- The signs of race in the language of photography -- Cultural memory and the conditions of visibility : the circulation of Jim Crow photographs -- Restroom doors and drinking fountains : perspective, mobility, and the fluid grounds of race and gender -- The eyeball and the wall : eating, seeing, and the nation -- Double take : photography, cinema, and the segregated theater -- Upside down and inside out : camera work, spectatorship, and the chronotope of the colored balcony -- Remaking racial signs : activism and photography in the theater of the sit-ins -- Afterword: Contemporary turns.…”
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Carrie Mae Weems : Kitchen table series / foreword by Sarah Lewis ; essay by Adrienne Edwards.

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Civil rights childhood : picturing liberation in African American photobooks / Katharine Capshaw. by Capshaw, Katharine

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Violence from slavery to #BlackLivesMatter : African American history and representation / edited by Andrew Dix and Peter Templeton

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Africana : the encyclopedia of the African and African American experience / editors, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Table of Contents: “…Ancient African civilizations -- Civil rights movement --Decolonization in Africa : an interpretation -- Garrido, Juan : A Black Conquistador in Mexico -- Harlem Renaissance -- Islam and tradition -- Latin America, Blacks and Indians in : an interpretation -- Pan-Africanism and Afro-Latin America -- Photography, African American -- Transatlantic slave trade -- W.E.B. …”

Images of Black modernism : verbal and visual strategies of the Harlem Renaissance / Miriam Thaggert. by Thaggert, Miriam

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: a crisis in Black art and literature -- Tone pictures: James Weldon Johnson's experiment in dialect -- Reading the body: fashion, etiquette, and narrative in Nella Larsen's Passing -- Surface effects: satire, race, and language in George Schuyler's Black no more and "the Negro-art hokum" -- Collectin' Van Vechten: the narrative and visual collections of Carl Van Vechten -- A photographic language: camera lucida and the photography of James Van Der Zee and Aaron Siskind -- Conclusion. remembering Harlem: Wallace Thurman, Alain Locke, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art's "Harlem" exhibition.…”

Sweet sweetback's baad asssss song / a film of Melvin Van Peebles ; a Yeah production.

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Jayhawkers / 9th Street Studios presents ; a Through a Glass production ; in association with Audax Films ; a Kevin Willmott film. by Davis, Nathan

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Mercy the mummy mumbled / directed by R.G. Phillips ; produced by Ebony Film Corporation

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Subjects of desire / Hungry Eyes Media & TVO present ; a film by Jennifer Holness ; written and directed by Jennifer Holness.

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