Picturing the New Negro : Harlem Renaissance print culture and modern black identity / Caroline Goeser.
"This innovative study examines the efforts of Harlem Renaissance artists and writers to create a hybrid expression of black identity that drew on their ancient past while participating in contemporary American culture. Caroline Goeser investigates a critical component of Harlem Renaissance pri...
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Language: | English |
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Lawrence, Kan. :
University Press of Kansas,
[2007]
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Series: | Culture America.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : making black modern in the medium of illustration
- An overview of Harlem Renaissance illustrations and their reception. Strategizing from spaces between : Aaron Douglas and the art of illustrating ; From racial uplift to vernacular expression : commercial and little magazine illustrations ; "Worth the price of the book" : dust jacket and book illustrations ; Critical ambivalence : illustration's reception in print
- Critical themes in Harlem Renaissance illustration. Remaking the past, making the modern : race, gender, and the modern economy ; Religion as "power site of cultural resistance" ; Black and tan : racial and sexual crossings in Ebony and topaz ; "To smile satirically" : on wearing the minstrel mask
- A brief conclusion : on making black modern during the Renaissance and beyond.