I was going through and looking at the story we went over in class and looked at it more closely. I think she puts to much emphasis on what the pictures look like. She try's to make the photographer and maybe even the editor seem evil. They were doing her a favor, they didn't have to put her story int he paper at all and then there would have been non national attention to the case. in the story it says "Is was a newspaper for which we blacks were usually invisible, except for crimes or welfare recipients." This is a very true fact the world was racist at the time and still is somewhat today. But She has to look past that and what the image of her in the paper means to the rest of the black people in the world at the time, for the first time they were being defended and faught to be brought up to the white cultural level, one small step at a time.
Very interesting analysis,
Very interesting analysis, Ethan. I think you have a very valid point. While oppressive overtones may have entered into the placement and photography of the images, the larger social context of the article isn't carefully analyzed in our textbook.