Selected as an Editor's Choice by Booklist as one of the best titles published in 2010
In a book that is at once sensitive, bold, and imaginative, Rogers delivers a deep history of the causes, creation, and consequences of these now famous photographs. . . . If there ever can be a shared humanity with a shared historical memory, perhaps it can only emerge from seeing such evidence of its most brutal denial.-David W. Blight, from the Foreword
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Delia's Tears, a beguiling mixture of history and imagination, we see that the poisonous allure of racial thinking, often posing as reasoned objectivity, has always blurred our vision. This is a story that is as beautiful as it is sad.-Jonathan Scott Holloway, Yale University
In a book that is at once sensitive, bold, and imaginative, Rogers delivers a deep history of the causes, creation, and consequences of these now famous photographs. . . . If there ever can be a shared humanity with a shared historical memory, perhaps it can only emerge from seeing such evidence of its most brutal denial.-David W. Blight, from the Foreword
-- David W. Blight
Through
Delia's Tears, a beguiling mixture of history and imagination, we see that the poisonous allure of racial thinking, often posing as reasoned objectivity, has always blurred our vision. This is a story that is as beautiful as it is sad.-Jonathan Scott Holloway, Yale University -- Jonathan Scott Holloway
[Rogers'] well-researched history paints a rich panorama of the mental world of slavery.
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Publishers Weekly * Publishers Weekly *
Selected as an Editor's Choice by Booklist as one of the best titles published in 2010 -- 2010 Editor's Choice * Booklist *
Rogers succeeds in humanizing photographs that were taken not to bring out the individual qualities of those photographed but in an attempt to confirm theories of human inequality.-Reginald Horsman,
Register of the Kentucky Historical Society -- Reginald Horsman * Register of the Kentucky Historical Society *
[An] excellent work.-J. D. Smith,
Choice -- J. D. Smith * Choice *