Picturing the New Negro : Harlem Renaissance print culture and modern black identity

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Author

Goeser, Caroline, author.

Title

Picturing the New Negro : Harlem Renaissance print culture and modern black identity / Caroline Goeser.

ISBN

0700614664

9780700614660

Publication

Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2007]

Physical Description

1 online resource (xiv, 360 pages) : illustrations

Local Notes

Access is available to the Yale community.

Notes

Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2022. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])

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Summary

"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 print culture that until now has been largely overlooked, arguing that illustrations became the most timely and often most radical visual products of the movement."--Jacket.

Variant and related titles

ACLS Humanities eBooks.

Format

Books / Online

Language

English

Added to Catalog

September 05, 2024

Series

Culture America.

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

CultureAmerica

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-350) and index.

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.

Subjects

African Americans in art.

Illustration of books > New York (State) > New York > 20th century.

Magazine illustration > New York (State) > New York > 20th century.

African American illustrators > New York (State) > New York.

Harlem Renaissance.

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American Council of Learned Societies

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https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/17374945

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