Word, image, and the New Negro : representation and identity in the Harlem Renaissance
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Carroll, Anne Elizabeth, 1967-
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2005
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Harlem Renaissance , African Americans Intellectual life , African Americans Race identity , African American arts , African Americans Intellectual life , African Americans in literature , Ethnicity in literature
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Carroll, Anne Elizabeth. Word, Image, and the New Negro: Representation and Identity in the Harlem Renaissance. Indiana University Press, 2005.
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This book focuses on the collaborative illustrated volumes published during the Harlem Renaissance, in which African Americans used written and visual texts to shape ideas about themselves and to redefine African American identity. Anne Elizabeth Carroll argues that these volumes show how participants in the movement engaged in the processes of representation and identity formation in sophisticated and largely successful ways. Though they have received little scholarly attention, these volumes constitute an important aspect of the cultural production of the Harlem Renaissance. Word, Image, and the New Negro marks the beginning of a long-overdue recovery of this legacy and points the way to a greater understanding of the potential of texts to influence social change.
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Indiana University Press
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Blacks in the diaspora.