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What meaning does the American public attach to images of key black political, social, and cultural figures? Considering photography's role as a means of documenting historical progress, what is the representational currency of these images? How do racial icons "signify"? Nicole R. Fleetwood's answers to these questions will change the way you think about the next photograph that you see depicting a racial event, black celebrity, or public figure. In On Racial Icons, Fleetwood focuses a sustained look on photography in documenting black public life, exploring the ways in which iconic images function as celebrations of national and racial progress at times or as a gauge of collective racial wounds in moments of crisis. Offering an overview of photography's ability to capture shifting race relations, Fleetwood spotlights in each chapter a different set of iconic images in key sectors of public life. She considers flash points of racialized violence in photographs of Trayvon Martin and Emmett Till; the political, aesthetic, and cultural shifts marked by the rise of pop stars such as Diana Ross; and the power and precarity of such black sports icons as Serena Williams and LeBron James; and she does not miss Barack Obama and his family along the way. On Racial Icons is an eye-opener in every sense of the phrase. Images from the book. (http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/pages/Fleetwood.aspx)

Sociology of minorities --- Iconography --- Photography --- visual culture --- United States --- Visual communication --- Mass media --- Art and race. --- African Americans --- Blacks --- African American celebrities. --- African Americans in mass media. --- Black identity --- Blackness (Race identity) --- Negritude --- Race identity of blacks --- Racial identity of blacks --- Ethnicity --- Race awareness --- Race and art --- Ethnopsychology --- Graphic communication --- Imaginal communication --- Pictorial communication --- Communication --- Afro-Americans in mass media --- Celebrities, African American --- Celebrities --- Social aspects --- Social conditions --- Race identity. --- Ethnic identity --- Since 1975 --- Race relations. --- Race question --- Race identity of Black people --- Racial identity of Black people --- Black persons --- Negroes --- Ethnology --- Black people --- Black Lives Matter, Trayvon Martin, Barack Obama, Diana Ross, Serena James, LeBron James, Emmet Till, Black Madonna, Janel Monea, Paul Robeson, Malcom X, Martin Luther King Jr, Michelle Obama, Sasha, Malia, Frederick Douglass, Harry Langdon, Motown, Black Panthers, Angela Davis, Lena Horne, Josephine Baker, Billie Holiday, Michael Jackson, Jackson 5, Bessie Smith, Bob Marley, Nelson Mandela:Michael Jordan. --- United States of America