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Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Africana Studies Picturing Frederick Douglass: The Most Photographed American of the 19 th Century Professor Zoe Trodd American Literature, Department of American and Canadian Studies , University of Nottingham Founding Co-director of the Centre for Research in Race and Rights Co-Director of the University’s Research Priority Area in Rights and Justice Tuesday, September 29, 2015 | 4:10 p.m. Williams Hall, Roemmele Global Commons Office of Interdisciplinary Programs: 31 Williams Hall | 610-758-3996 | [email protected] Did you know that black abolitionist Frederick Douglass was the most photographed American in his time? Douglass used the camera and these photographs as his "social media" - #picturethat! Douglass employed the camera as a weapon in the abolitionist struggle to reinvent black masculinity, citizenship, and counter racist iconography. Don’t miss Gender, Violence and Education Support’s event “TAKE BACK THE NIGHT” 6 p.m. in Lamberton Hall
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Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Africana Studies
Picturing Frederick Douglass:
The Most Photographed American of the 19th Century
Professor Zoe Trodd American Literature, Department of American and Canadian Studies , University of Nottingham Founding Co-director of the Centre for Research in Race and Rights Co-Director of the University’s Research Priority Area in Rights and Justice
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 | 4:10 p.m.
Williams Hall, Roemmele Global Commons
Office of Interdisciplinary Programs: 31 Williams Hall | 610-758-3996 | [email protected]
Did you know that black abolitionist Frederick Douglass was the most photographed American in his time?
Douglass used the camera and these photographs as his "social media" - #picturethat!
Douglass employed the camera as a weapon in the abolitionist struggle to reinvent black masculinity, citizenship, and counter racist iconography.
Don’t miss Gender, Violence and Education Support’s event
“TAKE BACK THE NIGHT” 6 p.m. in Lamberton Hall
