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Indians illustrated : the image of Native Americans in the pictorial press / John M. Coward.

Coward, John M., (author.).

Summary:

"Indians Illustrated is a social and cultural history of Indian illustrations in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, Harper's Weekly, and other illustrated journals during the last half of the nineteenth century, the heyday of the American pictorial press. The pictorial press era, spurred in the mid-1850s by the transportation revolution, innovations in printing technology, and an expanded literary and pictorial market, was marked by a proliferation of detailed, realistic woodblock engravings, pictures of newsworthy people and interesting events from across the nation and the world. The pictorial press frequently depicted Indians and Indian life in popular but narrowly conceived ways. In pictures, Indians were simplified and presented in familiar and easily understood categories, usually as variations on the 'good' Indian/'bad' Indian stereotypes long established in Euro-American culture. Indian men were depicted as 'tall and copper-colored, with braided hair, clothed in buckskin, and moccasins, and adorned in headdresses, beadwork and/or turquoise' while Indian women were depicted as either Indian princesses or squaws. John Coward argues that these pictures helped create and sustain a host of popular ideas and attitudes about Indians, especially ideas about the way Indians were supposed to look and act. By describing and analyzing the various themes and visual tropes across the years of the illustrated press, this book provides a deeper understanding of the racial codes and visual signs that white Americans used to represent Native Americans in an era of western expansion and Manifest Destiny"--Provided by publisher.

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  • ISBN: 9780252040269
  • ISBN: 0252040260
  • ISBN: 9780252081712
  • ISBN: 0252081714
  • Physical Description: viii, 228 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
  • Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2016]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-219) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction: Illustrating Indians in the pictorial press -- Posing the Indian : Native American portraits in the illustrated press -- Illustrating Indian lives : difference and deficiency in Native American imagery -- The princess and the squaw : the construction of Native American women in the pictorial press -- Making images on the Indian frontier : the adventures of special artist Theodore Davis -- Illustrating the Indian Wars : fact, fantasy, and ideology -- Making sense of savagery : Native American cartoons in the Daily graphic -- Remington's Indian illustrations : race, realism, and pictorial journalism -- Visualizing race : Native American and African American imagery in Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper -- Conclusion: Illustrating race, demonstrating difference.

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Subject:
Indians of North America > Press coverage > History.
Indians of North America > Public opinion > History.
Illustrated periodicals > United States > History.
Journalism, Pictorial > Social aspects > United States > History.
Visual communication > United States > History.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) > United States > History.
Indians in popular culture > United States > History.
Public opinion > United States > History.
Popular culture > United States > History.
United States > Race relations > History.
Illustrated periodicals.
Indians in popular culture.
Indians of North America > Public opinion.
Journalism, Pictorial > Social aspects.
Popular culture.
Public opinion.
Race relations.
Stereotypes (Social psychology)
Visual communication.
United States.
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History.

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