Making a promised land : Harlem in twentieth-century photography and film / / Paula J. Massood.

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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:xiv, 247 p. :; ill.
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Table of Contents:
  • The era of the new Negro: African American politics and aesthetics in twentieth century Harlem
  • African American aesthetics and the city: picturing the Black bourgeoisie in New York
  • Heaven and hell in Harlem: urban aesthetics for a renaissance people
  • Delinquents in the making: Harlem's representational turn toward "marketable shock"
  • Gangster's paradise: drugs and crime in Harlem, from Blaxploitation to New Jack cinema
  • Echoes of a renaissance: Harlem's nostalgic turn
  • Conclusion: making and re-making a promised land: Harlem's continuing revisions.