| Introduction | |
| 1 | Introduction to photography by, and of, African Americans |
| Slavery | |
| 2 | Slavery in America |
| 3 | Joseph T. Zealy: African American slaves |
| 4 | The scourged back |
| 5 | Southworth and Hawes: The Branded Hand of Captain Jonathan Walker |
| 6 | Abolitionists |
| 7 | Roles and representation of African Americans in nineteenth century photography |
| 8 | Emancipated slaves in the USA |
| 9 | The Unknown Sitter - African American Portraits of the 1860s-1880s |
| Photo postcards | |
| 10 | Real photo postcards: African Americans |
| Photographers | |
| 11 | Francis Benjamin Johnston: Hampton Album (1899-1900) |
| 12 | James Van der Zee: Harlem |
| 13 | Julian Dimock: African-Americans in South Carolina (1904-1905) |
| 14 | Doris Ulmann: Roll, Jordan, Roll (1933) |
| 15 | Aaron Siskind: Harlem Document (1932-1940) |
| Race hatred and prejudice | |
| 16 | The Klu Klux Klan and race hatred in America |
| 17 | A symbol of race hatred - lynchings in America |
| Civil rights | |
| 18 | Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) |
| 19 | Danny Lyon: Memories of the Southern Rights Movement (1962-1964) |
| 20 | Ernest Withers: The struggle for civil rights in the USA |
| Robert Mapplethorpe and the black body | |
| 21 | Robert Mapplethorpe: Black bodies |
| Contemporary issues | |
| 22 | Hank Willis Thomas: Unbranded, Reflections in Black by Corporate America 1968-2008 |
| Introduction | |
| 1 | Introduction to photography by, and of, African Americans |
| Slavery | |
| 2 | Slavery in America |
| 3 | Joseph T. Zealy: African American slaves |
| 4 | The scourged back |
| 5 | Southworth and Hawes: The Branded Hand of Captain Jonathan Walker |
| 6 | Abolitionists |
| 7 | Roles and representation of African Americans in nineteenth century photography |
| 8 | Emancipated slaves in the USA |
| 9 | The Unknown Sitter - African American Portraits of the 1860s-1880s |
| Photo postcards | |
| 10 | Real photo postcards: African Americans |
| Photographers | |
| 11 | Francis Benjamin Johnston: Hampton Album (1899-1900) |
| 12 | James Van der Zee: Harlem |
| 13 | Julian Dimock: African-Americans in South Carolina (1904-1905) |
| 14 | Doris Ulmann: Roll, Jordan, Roll (1933) |
| 15 | Aaron Siskind: Harlem Document (1932-1940) |
| Race hatred and prejudice | |
| 16 | The Klu Klux Klan and race hatred in America |
| 17 | A symbol of race hatred - lynchings in America |
| Civil rights | |
| 18 | Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) |
| 19 | Danny Lyon: Memories of the Southern Rights Movement (1962-1964) |
| 20 | Ernest Withers: The struggle for civil rights in the USA |
| Robert Mapplethorpe and the black body | |
| 21 | Robert Mapplethorpe: Black bodies |
| Contemporary issues | |
| 22 | Hank Willis Thomas: Unbranded, Reflections in Black by Corporate America 1968-2008 |