This talk examines how photographs across two centuries and in a variety of forms and genres—including surveillance images, documentary photography, personal images, and public art—influences ideas of Black citizenship in the United States.

Leigh Raiford is Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches, researches, curates and writes about race, gender, justice and visuality. Raiford is the author of Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare: Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle and, with Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Wendy Ewald, Susan Meiselas and Laura Wexler, of Collaboration: A Potential History of Photography (Thames and Hudson). This Spring, Raiford is the Anna-Maria Kellen Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin where she is completing a book entitled When Home is a Photograph: Blackness and Belonging in the World (under contract with Duke UP).

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