Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare: Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle

In <i>Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare</i>, Leigh Raiford argues that over the past one hundred years, activists in the black freedom struggle have used photographic imagery both to gain political recognition and to develop a different visual vocabulary about black lives. Offering readings of the use of photography in the anti-lynching movement, the civil rights movement, and the black power movement, <i>Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare</i> focuses on key transformations in technology, society, and politics to understand the evolution of photographys deployment in capturing white oppression, black resistance, and African American life.