| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.2

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Photography on the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture. By Shawn Michelle Smith. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. xviii, 225 pp. Cloth, $74.95, ISBN 0-8223-3331-7. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-82233343-0.)

Visual culture has emerged in the past decade as an interdisciplinary field interrogating the ways in which the act of looking, a seemingly transparent and instinctive sensory act, is in fact culturally and historically bound and intricately connected to social power. Shawn Michelle Smith's first book, American Archives: Gender, Race, and Class in Visual Culture (1999), was an important contribution to this field, as it traced the ways in which early uses of photography came to shape American discourses of gender, race, and class in the nineteenth century.

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