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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Ruby C Tapia |
ISBN: | 9780816653102 0816653100 9780816653119 0816653119 |
OCLC Number: | 865467362 |
Description: | 1 vol. (202 p.) : ill. ; 23 cm. |
Contents: | Introduction: Race, Death, and the Maternal in American Visual Culture1. Maternal Visions, Racial Seeing: Theories of the Photographic in Barthes' Camera Lucida2. Commemorating Whiteness: The Ghost of Diana in the U.S. Popular Press3. Beloved Therapies: Oprah and the Hollywood Production of Maternal Horror4. Prodigal (Non)Citizens: Teen Pregnancy and Public Health at the Border5. Breeding Patriotism: The Widows of 9/11 and the Primetime Wombs of National MemoryConclusion: Vivid DefacementsAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex |
Series Title: | Critical American studies series; Critical American studies series. |
Responsibility: | Ruby C. Tapia. |
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"American Pietas offers a compelling analysis of racialized concepts of motherhood in American narratives of identity, history, and memory. Looking at both the construction of whiteness and racial otherness, Ruby C. Tapia attends to the intersections of race and gender in visual representations of national subjectivity. This is an extremely important intervention that interrogates, rather than simply references, the centrality of racialized motherhood to national identities." -Wendy Kozol, Oberlin College "Ruby C. Tapia combines historical depth with subtle theoretical sophistication in her close readings of contemporary visual texts. Rarely are scholars able to read contemporary texts with such nuance and sustained insight, illuminating their wide-ranging importance in processes of self-identification and the production of national belonging." -Shawn Michelle Smith, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Read more...


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- Motherhood in popular culture -- United States.
- Death in popular culture -- United States.
- Ethnicity -- United States.
- Pietà
- Mothers in art.
- Death in art.
- Race in art.
- Death in popular culture.
- Ethnicity.
- Motherhood in popular culture.
- United States.
- Maternité -- Dans la littérature.
- Mort -- Dans la littérature.
- Ethnicité -- Dans la littérature.
- Littérature populaire américaine.