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Visualizing Equality successfully demonstrates how early African American visual artists developed ideas and practices of image making linked to politics impacted by their understanding of the intersections of race and images. Meticulously researched, Gonzalez's text focuses our attention on Black artists empowered by their positions as activists in free Black communities in the North.caa.reviews Extends the prehistory of the Black Arts movement-as well as the Harlem Renaissance--to a critical period in the middle of the nineteenth century, when imagery was central to the fight against slavery. . . . Illuminates a vital period in the development of African American visual culture.--Black Perspectives

Extends the prehistory of the Black Arts movement-as well as the Harlem Renaissance--to a critical period in the middle of the nineteenth century, when imagery was central to the fight against slavery. . . . Illuminates a vital period in the development of African American visual culture.--Black Perspectives

"[Gonzalez] narrows his lens to offer rich biographies of his leading characters, opens the aperture to reveal the local contexts and activist networks in which they worked, and then widens it further to show the transnational reach of their work."" --The North Carolina Historical Review Visualizing Equality successfully demonstrates how early African American visual artists developed ideas and practices of image making linked to politics impacted by their understanding of the intersections of race and images. Meticulously researched, Gonzalez's text focuses our attention on Black artists empowered by their positions as activists in free Black communities in the North.""caa.reviews Extends the prehistory of the Black Arts movement-as well as the Harlem Renaissance--to a critical period in the middle of the nineteenth century, when imagery was central to the fight against slavery. . . . Illuminates a vital period in the development of African American visual culture.--Black Perspectives"

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Aston Gonzalez is assistant professor of history at Salisbury University.

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