Visualizing equality : African American rights and visual culture in the nineteenth century
African American art African American artists African Americans in art Art and race African Americans Politics in art Civil rights movements
The University of North Carolina Press
2021
EISBN 1469659980
The fight for racial equality in the nineteenth century played out not only in marches and political conventions but also in the print and visual culture created and disseminated throughout the US by African Americans. Aston Gonzalez charts the changing roles of African American visual artists as they helped build the world they envisioned.
