This image functions as a metonym in multiple senses. First of all, as it is one of the few images of early black settlers in Los Angeles, it stands in for the whole set of images an information about black life in this place during this era that does not exist. At the same time, this instance of metonymy is also metonymic itself; that is, it evidences an absence of attention and record of the subaltern which is generalizable across the entire project of "the archive."
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