2. Heaven and Hell in Harlem: Urban Aesthetics for a Renaissance People

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS ix
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
4. Introduction: The Era of the New Negro: African American Politics and Aesthetics in Twentieth-Century Harlem 1
5. 1. African American Aesthetics and the City: Picturing the Black Bourgeoisie in New York 20
6. 2. Heaven and Hell in Harlem: Urban Aesthetics for a Renaissance People 51
7. 3. Delinquents in the Making: Harlem’s Representational Turn toward “Marketable Shock” 88
8. 4. Gangster’s Paradise: Drugs and Crime in Harlem, from Blaxploitation to New Jack Cinema 126
9. 5. Echoes of a Renaissance: Harlem’s Nostalgic Turn 159
10. Conclusion: Making and Remaking a Promised Land: Harlem’s Continuing Revisions 192
11. Notes 199
12. INDEX 231