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6. Photographing the “American Negro”: Nation, Race, and Photography at the Paris Exposition of 1900
Shawn Michelle Smith
Description: American Archives: Gender, Race, and Class in Visual Culture
American Archives: Gender, Race, and Class in Visual Culture
In “The Conservation of Races,” published in 1897, W. E. B. Du Bois asks, “What, after all, am I? Am I an American or am I a Negro? Can I be both...
Author
Shawn Michelle Smith
PublisherPrinceton University Press
Copyright© 1999 by Princeton University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.157-186
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00342.7
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23318
Chapter subject tags:Pavillon des États-Unis (Exposition universelle, 1900, Paris, France)Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963Galton, Francis, 1822-1911Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952Portrait photography--United States--History--19th centuryVisual culture--United States--History--19th centuryBlack people--Race identity--United States--History--19th centuryScientific racism--United States--History--19th centuryAssimilation (Sociology)--United States--History--19th century

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6. Photographing the “American Negro”: Nation, Race, and Photography at the Paris Exposition of 1900