Imprisoned in a luminous glare : photography and the African American freedom struggle

In Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare , Leigh Raiford argues that over the past one hundred years, activists in the black freedom struggle have used photographic imagery both to gain political recognition and to develop a different visual vocabulary about black lives. Offering readings of the use of photography in the anti-lynching movement, the civil rights movement, and the black power movement, Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare focuses on key transformations in technology, society, and politics to understand the evolution of photography's deployment in capturing white oppression, black resistance, and African American life.

• Acknowledgments p. ix
• Introduction p. 1
• 1 No Relation to the Facts about Lynching p. 29
• 2 Come Let Us Build a New World Together p. 67
• 3 Attacked First by Sight p. 129
• Conclusion: Or Was It the Pictures That Made Her Unrecognizable? p. 209
• Notes p. 239
• Bibliography p. 261
• Index p. 283