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When Home Is a Photograph: Blackness and Belonging in the World

By (author) Leigh Raiford

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In When Home Is a Photograph, Leigh Raiford asks how Black people use photography to make home in the world. Raiford focuses on a selection of Black American activists and artists, including Marcus Garvey, James Van Der Zee, Eslanda Goode Robeson, and Kathleen Neal Cleaver to explore the complex relationship between racialized subjects and the medium of photography. As they traveled the world for study, for work, for pleasure, or for survival, these artists and activists took and collected photographs to express their political platforms and personal sense of self. Raiford considers the everyday image-making practices that these Black Americans employed to improve the condition of Black lives globally by imagining, identifying, inhabiting, leaving, defending, and destroying “home.” When Home Is a Photograph shows how these figures did not merely utilize photography to emplace themselves in the world—they demonstrated how the use of photography is itself a way to mediate one’s relationship to the world.

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Publisher | Duke University Press
Published date | 31 May 2026
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 170
Dimensions | 229 x 152 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 445g
ISBN | 978-1-4780-3331-8
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