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How Black Americans used portraits and family photographs to defy stereotypes

By Janette Greenwood, Professor of History, Clark University
Unstable. Criminal. Impoverished. Absentee fathers. Neglectful mothers. “A tangle of pathology,” as the Moynihan Report, a 1965 study on Black poverty, put it.

For decades, the Black family has been denigrated as dysfunctional.

When mass media exploded in the late 19th century, degrading…The Conversation


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