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How Black Americans used portraits and family photographs to defy stereotypes

  • Written by Janette Greenwood, Professor of History, Clark University
imagePortrait of Betty and Willis Coles by William Bullard from about 1902.Courtesy of Frank Morrill, Clark University and the Worcester Art Museum

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...

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