Goeser, Caroline,

Picturing the New Negro : Harlem Renaissance print culture and modern black identity / Caroline Goeser. - Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2007] ©2007 - 1 online resource (xiv, 360 pages) : illustrations - CultureAmerica . - Culture America. ACLS Humanities E-Book. .

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

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.

"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.



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African Americans in art. Illustration of books Magazine illustration African American illustrators Harlem Renaissance.