Picturing Us: African American Identity in Photography

This book is a groundbreaking study of African American identity through photography.

18 renowned writers, scholars, and filmmakers share their personal or historically significant photographs and provide insightful analyses of them.

The images include treasured family portraits, a lynching, a stylish woman of the Harlem Renaissance, a famous 19th-century propaganda piece, and a daguerreotype portrait of a black child holding a white baby.

This book is a must-read for anyone interested in African American history, photography, or cultural studies.