Ardis Cameron 
Looking for America [PDF ebook] 
The Visual Production of Nation and People

Acknowledgments.
Introduction (Ardis Cameron).
Suggested Readings.
PART I: 1860-1900.
Modern Types.
1. Sleuthing Towards America: Visual Detection in Everyday Life
(Ardis Cameron).
2. Cartes de Visite Portrait Photographs and the Culture of
Class Formation (Andrea L. Volpe).
Suggested Readings.
PART II: 1900-1940.
The Embodied Nation: Race, Gender, and the Politics of the
Camera.
3. Photographing the ‘American Negro’: Nation, Race, and
Photography at the Paris Exposition of 1900 (Shawn Michelle
Smith).
4. Techniques of the Imaginary Nation: Engendering Family
Photography (Laura Wexler).
‘The Eye of Power’: Cross-Class Looking.
5. Private Eyes, Public Women: Images of Class and Sex in the
Urban South, Atlanta, Georgia, 1913-1915 (Jacquelyn Dowd Hall).
6. Margaret Bourke-White’s Red Coat; or, Slumming in the
Thirties (Paula Rabinowitz).
Suggested Readings.
PART III: 1940-2000.
Home and Nation: Imaging the ‘All-American’ Family.
7. ‘The Kind of People Who Make Good Americans’: Nationalism and
Life’s Family Ideal (Wendy Kozol).
8. Visua Culture and Working-Class Community: Photography and
the Organizing of the Steelworkers’ Union in Chicago (Larry
Peterson).
9. Sit-coms and Suburbs: Positioning the 1950s Homemaker (Mary
Beth Haralovich).
The Eye of Difference: The Politics of Appearance.
10. The Zoot-Suit and Style Warfare (Stuart Cosgrove).
11. Looking Jewish, Seeing Jews (Matthew Frye Jacobson).
Troubling Sights (Sites): Visual Maps and America’s
‘Others’.
12. The Photograph as an Intersection of Gazes (Catherine A.
Lutz and Jane L. Collins).
13. When Strangers Bring Cameras: The Poetics and Politics of
Othered Places (Ardis Cameron).
Suggested Readings.
Appendix A: ‘Reading the Visual Record’ (Elspeth H. Brown).
Appendix B: List of Visual Archives (Ardis Cameron).
Index.

Ardis Cameron is Professor of American and New England
Studies, University of Southern Maine. She is author of Radicals
of the Worst Sort: The Laboring of Lawrence, 1860-1912
(1993). She received a Fellowship from the National Endowment for
the Humanities and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for
her work in progress, Tales of Peyton Place: The Biography of a
Big Book.