Format:
1 online resource (264 pages)
ISBN:
9780813555898
Content:
In Making a Promised Land, Paula J. Massood examines the interconnected histories of African American representation, urban life, and citizenship as documented in still and moving images of Harlem over the last century. She analyzes how photography and film have been used over time to make African American culture visible to itself and to a wider audience and charts the ways in which Harlem, the "Mecca of the New Negro," became a battleground in the struggles to define African American politics, aesthetics, and citizenship.
Content:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Frontispiece -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. The Era of the New Negro: African American Politics and Aesthetics in Twentieth-Century Harlem -- Chapter 1. African American Aesthetics and the City: Picturing the Black Bourgeoisie in New York -- Chapter 2. Heaven and Hell in Harlem: Urban Aesthetics for a Renaissance People -- Chapter 3. Delinquents in the Making: Harlem's Representational Turn toward "Marketable Shock" -- Chapter 4. Gangster's Paradise: Drugs and Crime in Harlem, from Blaxploitation to New Jack Cinema -- Chapter 5. Echoes of a Renaissance: Harlem's Nostalgic Turn -- Conclusion. Making and Remaking a Promised Land: Harlem's Continuing Revisions -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813555874
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780813555874
Language:
English
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