Title
Associate Professor

Department
Dept of African American Studies
American Studies Program


Faculty URL
http://africam.berkeley.edu/person/leigh-raiford

Email
lraiford@berkeley.edu

Phone
510 642-3420


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Research Expertise and Interest
social movements, visual culture, memory, photography, African American history and culture

Research Description
Raiford is the author of Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare: Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle (University of North Carolina Press, 2011) and is co-editor with Renee Romano of The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory (University of Georgia Press, 2006). Her work has appeared in numerous academic journals, including American Quarterly, History and Theory, English Language Notes and NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art; museum exhibit catalogs including Edward Kienholz, Five Card Stud 1969-1972, Revisited, (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2011) and the edited collection Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self, (Harry N. Abrams Press, 2003), a history of race and photography in the United States; and news outlets including Ms. Magazine and AlJazeera English online.