Waging a Visual War on Poverty: President Lyndon B. Johnson in Appalachia
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https://doi.org/10.5283/copas.143Abstract
The article investigates how press photographs shaped poverty discourses in the historical context of the War on Poverty. Using a picture of President Lyndon B. Johnson and a presumably poor woman as a case study, it examines how iconographic elements and the visualized rhetorical pattern of the American jeremiad serve to situate the poor within dominant middle-class ideologies.Downloads
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“Waging a Visual War on Poverty: President Lyndon B. Johnson in Appalachia”. Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, vol. 13, May 2012, https://doi.org/10.5283/copas.143.