Looking at Discipline, Looking at Labor: Photographic Representations of Indian Boarding Schools


Eric Margolis · Visual Studies · 2004

Eric Margolis is a sociologist in the Division of Educational Leadershipand Policy Studies at Arizona State University. His article, ‘ClassPictures: Representations of Race, Gender and Ability in a Century of SchoolPhotography’ (Visual Sociology Vol. 14,1999) was reprinted in Education Policy Analysis Archives http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v8n31/.He has produced visual sociology projects including photography exhibitions,multimedia and video programmes.

ISSN 1472-586X printed/ISSN 1472–5878 online/02/020085–07 # 2004 International Visual Sociology Association DOI: 10.1080/1472586042000204861

FIGURE 1. Debating class, Carlisle Indian School, Carlisle, Pennsylvania between ca. 1900 and 1903. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection, Library of Congress, LC-USZ62-38126.

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Eric Margolis (2004). Looking at Discipline, Looking at Labor: Photographic Representations of Indian Boarding Schools. Visual Studies.


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