Visualizing Equality: African American Rights and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Aston Gonzalez
University of North Carolina Press
The fight for racial equality in the 19th century played out not only in marches and political conventions, but also in print and visual culture created and disseminated by African Americans. In Visualizing Equality, Gonzales charts the changing roles of African American visual artists as they helped build the world they envisioned. Their work became central to the ways that people developed ideas about race, citizenship, and politics.