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