Enter the New Negroes : : Images of Race in American Culture / / Martha Jane Nadell.
With the appearance of the urban, modern, diverse "New Negro" in the Harlem Renaissance, writers and critics began a vibrant debate on the nature of African-American identity, community, and history. Martha Jane Nadell offers an illuminating new perspective on the period and the decades im...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: American History eBook Package |
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013] ©2004 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Edition: | Reprint 2014 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (199 p.) :; 47 halftones |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1. Exit the Old Negro -- 2. Enter the New Negro -- 3. Fy–ah -- 4. Them Big Old Lies -- 5. Realistic Tongues -- 6. Silhouettes -- Epilogue: Newer Negroes -- Notes. Index -- Notes -- Index |
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Summary: | With the appearance of the urban, modern, diverse "New Negro" in the Harlem Renaissance, writers and critics began a vibrant debate on the nature of African-American identity, community, and history. Martha Jane Nadell offers an illuminating new perspective on the period and the decades immediately following it in a fascinating exploration of the neglected role played by visual images of race in that debate. After tracing the literary and visual images of nineteenth-century "Old Negro" stereotypes, Nadell focuses on works from the 1920s through the 1940s that showcased important visual elements. Alain Locke and Wallace Thurman published magazines and anthologies that embraced modernist images. Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men, with illustrations by Mexican caricaturist Miguel Covarrubias, meditated on the nature of black Southern folk culture. In the "folk history" Twelve Million Black Voices, Richard Wright matched prose to Farm Security Administration photographs. And in the 1948 Langston Hughes poetry collection One Way Ticket, Jacob Lawrence produced a series of drawings engaging with Hughes's themes of lynching, race relations, and black culture. These collaborations addressed questions at the heart of the movement and in the era that followed it: Who exactly were the New Negroes? How could they attack past stereotypes? How should images convey their sense of newness, possibility, and individuality? In what directions should African-American arts and letters move? Featuring many compelling contemporary illustrations, Enter the New Negroes restores a critical visual aspect to African-American culture as it evokes the passion of a community determined to shape its own identity and image. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780674368835 9783110353464 9783110353488 9783110756067 9783110442205 |
DOI: | 10.4159/harvard.9780674368835 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Martha Jane Nadell. |