John M. Coward is an associate professor of communication at the University of Tulsa. He is the author of The Newspaper Indian: Native American Identity in the Press, 1820–90.
"Indians Illustrated is a good read that strongly contributes
to our knowledge of American Indians' depictions and stereotyping
while bringing the world of nineteenth-century printed press into
our own homes." --American Indian Quarterly
"In Indians Illustrated, Coward not only has written a book that
clearly and decisively achieves the primary objective of providing
a history of the development and consequences of Native American
stereotypes, but he also provides a framework useful for anyone who
seeks to understand stereotyping of any group in American
media."--Journalism History
"Coward provides a fascinating look at how powerful the visual
image can be on the development of cultural
attitudes."--Jhistory
"The author's work is a revelation, and with its many
illustrations, a journey in time. Read enough of it, and you will
be questioning the historical veracity of any illustration you see
from the late 19th century."--Journalism and Mass Communication
Education
"The book charts new territory, offers important new insights on a
topic that deserves further examination, and opens doors to
subsequent research for scholars and graduate students."--American
Indian Culture and Research Journal
"Coward provides a fascinating look at how powerful the visual
image can be on the development of cultural attitudes. Indians
Illustrated not only provides a crucial study for scholars of
Native American culture but is also very useful as a text for
scholars of race, anthropology, popular culture, and visual
studies."--H-Net Reviews
"Indians Illustrated is a good introduction to the concept that
images of Native Americans in the nineteenth century popular press
were constructed, framed, and viewed through Anglo-European
American eyes and that the imagery has much less to do with real
Native American life, history, or people than it has to do with the
self-perception and self-ideation of its mainstream colonial
counterpart."--Journal of American Culture
"[Coward] makes a compelling case for the importance of these
pictures as primary sources for cultural history." --The Journal of
American History
"This helpful book makes a major contribution to the field of
communication and media history, laying a stronger foundation for
helping the media, scholars, and society to understand, confront,
and heal from how the media had been complicit in the conquest and
genocide of the indigenous peoples of the Americas." --CBQ:
Communication Booknotes Quarterly
"Impressive. This book is an engaging example of 'visual history'
done well." --South Dakota History
"Rich in context and beautifully written. Other scholars have
considered the stereotyping of Native Americans, but this book
links the phenomenon to journalism/media history and explores the
cultural significance of these widely circulated images."--Janice
Hume, author of Popular Media and the American Revolution: Shaping
Collective Memory
"John Coward provides a comprehensive, well-documented overview of
the development of the visual clues that support Manifest Destiny
and racial stereotypes of American Indians. No one has provided
more insight or made such a detailed study of Native American
images in the press. This is a one-of-a-kind book."--William E.
Huntzicker, author of The Popular Press, 1833–1865
"If there is any story in the narrative of American history that
exemplifies our reliance on stereotypes, it must be pictorial
representations of Native Americans in the late 19th century press.
In Indians Illustrated, John Coward explores this story with
thoroughness, insight, and grace. By also including a wealth of
well-chosen images, he helps explain not only the details of
cultural production but a larger rendering of 'otherness' in
America."--David Abrahamson, Northwestern University
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