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Final thought on the lasting power of visual narratives in shaping national identity. 📚 Essential Keywords & Concepts Tender Violence - The University of North Carolina Press

: Analyze how white, middle-class women photographers—acting as "guardians of the domestic"—reinforced racial hierarchies by contrasting "heroic" white motherhood with the misrepresented or excluded lives of women of color. TENDER - Violence

: Connect Wexler’s 19th-century analysis to modern "tender violence," such as how social media or "lifestyle" branding can sanitize contemporary systemic inequalities. 📝 Suggested Paper Outline I. Introduction Final thought on the lasting power of visual

The exclusion of people of color or their depiction as "un-domesticated" to justify colonial rule. V. Conclusion 📝 Suggested Paper Outline I

: State how domestic imagery served as a political tool for U.S. expansion. II. The Ideology of Domesticity Explain the 19th-century "Cult of Domesticity."

Explain Wexler’s concept of the "averted eye"—the practice of looking at the domestic surface while ignoring the violent context. IV. Racial and Imperial Consequences How these images "fortified social hierarchies".

: Argue that early female photojournalists used a "domestic vision" to frame war and expansion as a peaceful, civilizing mission, effectively creating a "cover for imperial aggression".