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008			200330s2021 nyua b 001 0deng
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100	1		_aWillis, Deborah, _d1948- _eauthor. _977395
245	1	4	_aThe Black Civil War soldier : _ba visual history of conflict and citizenship / _cDeborah Willis.
264		1	_aNew York : _bNew York University Press, _c[2021]
300			_ax, 243 pages : _billustrations (chiefly color) ; _c27 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aNYU series in social and cultural analysis
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 215-228) and index.
520			_aA stunning collection of stoic portraits and intimate ephemera from the lives of Black Civil War soldiers.. Though both the Union and Confederate armies excluded African American men from their initial calls to arms, many of the men who eventually served were black. Simultaneously, photography culture blossomed-marking the Civil War as the first conflict to be extensively documented through photographs. In The Black Civil War Soldier, Deb Willis explores the crucial role of photography in (re)telling and shaping African American narratives of the Civil War, pulling from a dynamic visual archive that has largely gone unacknowledged... With over seventy images, The Black Civil War Soldier contains a huge breadth of primary and archival materials, many of which are rarely reproduced. The photographs are supplemented with handwritten captions, letters, and other personal materials Willis not only dives into the lives of black Union soldiers, but also includes stories of other African Americans involved with the struggle-from left-behind family members to female spies. Willis thus compiles a captivating memoir of photographs and words and examines them together to address themes of love and longing responsibility and fear commitment and patriotism and-most predominantly-African American resilience... The Black Civil War Soldier offers a kaleidoscopic yet intimate portrait of the African American experience, from the beginning of the Civil War to 1900. Through her multimedia analysis, Willis acutely pinpoints the importance of African American communities in the development and prosecution of the war. The book shows how photography helped construct a national vision of blackness, war, and bondage, while unearthing the hidden histories of these black Civil War soldiers. In combating the erasure of this often overlooked history, Willis asks how these images might offer a more nuanced memory of African-American participation in the Civil War, and in doing so, points to individual and collective struggles for citizenship and remembrance.
505	0		_a1860-61 : the war begins -- 1861-62 : visualizing the plan for victory -- 1863 : men of color, to arms! -- 1864 : Black men in battle -- 1865-66 : the end of the war.
651		0	_aUnited States _xHistory _yCivil War, 1861-1865 _xParticipation, African American. _9311347
651		0	_aUnited States _xHistory _yCivil War, 1861-1865 _xParticipation, African American _vPictorial works.
650		0	_aAfrican American soldiers _vBiography. _977325
650		0	_aAfrican American soldiers _vPortraits. _9338070
655		7	_aPortraits. _2lcgft _9387187
655		7	_aBiographies. _2lcgft _9870
830		0	_aNYU series in social and cultural analysis.
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