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The Enemy Within: The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Enemy Pictures

Photography has played an obvious role in black liberation movements. In the fight for civil rights, both the supporters of segregation and its opponents forged a stereotyped picture of their enemy. Our hypothesis is that the photographs from the mainstream media played an ambiguous role. They parti...

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הוצא לאור ב:	URI:https://journals.openedition.org/angles,
מחבר ראשי:	Maheo, Olivier
פורמט:	Article ou chapitre numérique
שפה:	Anglais
יצא לאור:	Angles 2020
נושאים:	ennemi stéréotypes Mouvement des Droits Civiques Black Power photographie Parti des Panthères Noires Little Rock historiographie États-Unis enemy stereotypes Civil Rights Movement photography Black Panther Party historiography United States
גישה מקוונת:	Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM

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spelling	openedition-oai:revues.org:angles_471 https://doi.org/10.4000/angles.471 urn:doi:10.4000/angles.471 en https://journals.openedition.org/angles/471 2020-07-16T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/9myh https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ The Enemy Within: The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Enemy Pictures Angles Société des Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2274-2042 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/angles Maheo, Olivier ennemi stéréotypes Mouvement des Droits Civiques Black Power photographie Parti des Panthères Noires Little Rock historiographie États-Unis enemy stereotypes Civil Rights Movement Black Power photography Black Panther Party Little Rock historiography United States Photography has played an obvious role in black liberation movements. In the fight for civil rights, both the supporters of segregation and its opponents forged a stereotyped picture of their enemy. Our hypothesis is that the photographs from the mainstream media played an ambiguous role. They participated in the creation of two types of enemy shown as a threat to democracy: the hateful and violent white supporter of segregation, on the one hand, and the hateful and violent black nationalists, on the other. Their images testified against racism, but also circumscribed the movement to narrow legal objectives. The northern media created a two-sided picture of the black activists. First, to exonerate the northern liberals, they offered a reassuring view of racism in which the enemy was the violently racist white-trash barbarians from the Old South. In these pictures the southern activists are helpless victims, as was the case with Rosa Parks in the most widely distributed pictures of her. Second, the black nationalists were later portrayed as hateful and violent and disrespectful of American values. In doing so, the Northern media forged a dichotomy between a supposed peaceful and nonviolent movement before 1964, and a violent and useless black power era after 1965. But history is more complex than suggested by these well-known pictures. La photographie a joué un rôle évident dans les mouvements de libération noirs. Dans la lutte pour les droits civiques, chaque camp, qu’il s’agisse des partisans de la ségrégation ou ses opposants, a forgé une image stéréotypée de l’ennemi. Nous faisons l’hypothèse que ces photographies, diffusée par les grands médias, ont joué un rôle ambigu. Elles ont participé à la création de deux types d'ennemis, deux menaces pour la démocratie : d’un côté le blanc haineux, violent partisan de la ségrégation, de l’autre le nationaliste noir, lui aussi haineux et violent. Avec ces photographies, les journaux cherchaient à témoigner contre le racisme mais ce faisant limitaient le mouvement à des objectifs juridiques étroits. Les médias du Nord ont ainsi créé une double image des militants noirs afin d'exonérer les libéraux du Nord : une vision « rassurante » du racisme, dans laquelle l'ennemi est représenté par les barbares blancs du Vieux Sud, violemment racistes. Dans ce discours visuel, les activistes du Sud sont des victimes impuissantes, telle Rosa Parks dans les photographies les plus connues. D’autre part, les nationalistes noirs sont dépeints comme haineux et racistes. Ce faisant, ces médias ont forgé une dichotomie entre un mouvement supposé pacifique avant 1964, et une ère du Black Power violente et inutile après 1964. Pourtant, l'histoire est plus complexe que ne le suggèrent ces images bien connues.
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topic	ennemi stéréotypes Mouvement des Droits Civiques Black Power photographie Parti des Panthères Noires Little Rock historiographie États-Unis enemy stereotypes Civil Rights Movement Black Power photography Black Panther Party Little Rock historiography United States
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description	Photography has played an obvious role in black liberation movements. In the fight for civil rights, both the supporters of segregation and its opponents forged a stereotyped picture of their enemy. Our hypothesis is that the photographs from the mainstream media played an ambiguous role. They participated in the creation of two types of enemy shown as a threat to democracy: the hateful and violent white supporter of segregation, on the one hand, and the hateful and violent black nationalists, on the other. Their images testified against racism, but also circumscribed the movement to narrow legal objectives. The northern media created a two-sided picture of the black activists. First, to exonerate the northern liberals, they offered a reassuring view of racism in which the enemy was the violently racist white-trash barbarians from the Old South. In these pictures the southern activists are helpless victims, as was the case with Rosa Parks in the most widely distributed pictures of her. Second, the black nationalists were later portrayed as hateful and violent and disrespectful of American values. In doing so, the Northern media forged a dichotomy between a supposed peaceful and nonviolent movement before 1964, and a violent and useless black power era after 1965. But history is more complex than suggested by these well-known pictures.
author	Maheo, Olivier
author_facet	Maheo, Olivier
author_sort	Maheo, Olivier
title	The Enemy Within: The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Enemy Pictures
title_short	The Enemy Within: The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Enemy Pictures
title_full	The Enemy Within: The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Enemy Pictures
title_fullStr	The Enemy Within: The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Enemy Pictures
title_full_unstemmed	The Enemy Within: The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Enemy Pictures
title_sort	enemy within: the long civil rights movement and the enemy pictures
publisher	Angles
publishDate	2020
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