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Picturing the New Negro: Harlem Renaissance Print Culture and Modern Black Identity
Caroline Goeser
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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.
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Cover Page
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Title Page
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Copyright Page
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Contents
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Preface and Acknowledgments
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Introduction: Making Black Modern in the Medium of Illustration
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PART ONE: An Overview of Harlem Renaissance Illustrations and Their Reception
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Chapter 1: Strategizing from Spaces Between: Aaron Douglas and the Art of Illustrating
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Chapter 2: From Racial Uplift to Vernacular Expression: Commercial and Little Magazine Illustrations
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Chapter 3: “Worth the Price of the Book”: Dust Jacket and Book Illustrations
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Chapter 4: Critical Ambivalence: Illustration’s Reception in Print
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Chapter 5: Remaking the Past, Making the Modern: Race, Gender, and the Modern Economy
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Chapter 6: Religion as “Power Site of Cultural Resistance”
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Chapter 7: Black and Tan: Racial and Sexual Crossings in Ebony and Topaz
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Chapter 8: “To Smile Satirically”: On Wearing the Minstrel Mask
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A Brief Conclusion: On Making Black Modern during the Renaissance and Beyond
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Notes
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Index
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Published: 2007
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
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