Commerce in Color: Race, Consumer Culture, and American Literature, 1893-1933

Index

291 Index Abundance for What? (Riesman), 27 Adorno, Theodor, 23, 50, 229 Advertising, 35, 52–53, 66, 213–14, 225–33, 250–52; and book publishing , 170–87; and African American literature, 169–81, 188, 192, 203–12, 216 Af›uent Society, The (Galbraith), 27 Against the American Grain (MacDonald ), 27, 113 Agassiz, Louis, 197 Agnew, Jean-Christophe, 90 All the World’s a Fair (Rydell), 52, 54 American Dilemma, An (Myrdal), 38, 139–40 American Scene, The (James), 12, 14, 85, 88–129, 133 American Skin (Wynter), 17, 251 Anderson, Regina, 181 Anderson, Sherwood, 166, 187, 196, 198–200 Arendt, Hannah, 23 Atherton, Gertrude, 192 Aunt Jemima, 64, 66, 68, 82–83 Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man, The (Johnson), 14–15, 131–67, 211 Baker, Houston, 59 Baldwin, Davarian, 10, 60–61 Baldwin, James, 94, 155 Bambara, Toni Cade, 253–54 Banjo (McKay), 208–10 Barkley Brown, Elsa, 60–61 Barnes, Djuna, 187 Barnett, Frederick L., 70–73 Barnum, P. T., 181, 213 Barthes, Roland, 38 Baudrillard, Jean, 22, 46, 49–50 Benjamin, Walter, 23 Bennett, Gwendolyn, 181 Bennett, Tony, 70, 74 Berlant, Lauren, 13, 58, 82–83 Bernays, Edward, 15, 174, 179, 181–85, 191–92, 204 Besant, Walter, 87 Birmingham School, 22, 24–25, 46–47, 50–51 Black Bourgeoisie, The (Frazier), 38, 42–45 Black Consumer, The (Govoni and Joyce), 37 Black Culture and the Harlem Renaissance (Wintz), 211 Black Metropolis (Cayton and Drake), 38–46 Black No More (Schuyler), 213–15, 219–28, 243, 247 Black Reconstruction (DuBois), 35 Blair, Sara, 94, 110–11 Bloom, Harold, 215 Boas, Franz, 85, 238–39 Bok, Edward, 233 Bone, Robert, 134, 146–47 Boni, Albert, 178–79, 185–86, 188, 196 Boni, Charles, 15, 178–79, 185–86, 188, 196 Boni and Liveright, 15–16, 174–83, 185–87; role in Harlem Renaissance , 169–72, 175–81, 187–89, 192–96, 202–6; role in Modernism , 171–72, 186–87, 189–92, 196–202 Book-of-the-Month Club, 186, 210 Book publishing, commercialization of, 169–212 Boorstin, Daniel, 27 Bourdieu, Pierre, 22, 113–14, 170 Bourke-White, Margaret, 212 Bourne, Randolph, 85 Braithwaite, William Stanley, 195 Broun, Heywood, 181 Brown, Hallie Quinn, 66 Brown, Sterling, 146 Bryant, Louise, 196 Burgess, Ernest, 38 Burleigh, Harry T., 167 Burnham, Daniel, 68 Butler, Judith, 142 Cable, George Washington, 133 Calvin, Floyd, 169, 175–76, 211 Cane (Toomer), 16; marketing of, 192, 194–96, 202–6, 209 Capital (Marx), 21 Captains of Consciousness (Ewen), 27 Carby, Hazel, 51, 67–68, 70, 81 Cayton, Horace, 38–46, 50 Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies. See Birmingham School Cerf, Bennett, 186 Chamberlain, Houston Stewart, 30 Chesnutt, Charles, 133, 176 Chinese Exclusion Act (1882), 220 Class, 214, 233, 240; in consumer culture scholarship, 10–11, 24, 30; and race, 8–11, 35–36, 39–47, 135, 151, 155–58, 161–62, 223–24, 227, 244–45 Cohen, Lizabeth, 8–9 Color Scheme (McKay), 206, 210 Commercialization of EighteenthCentury England, The, 26 Commodity fetishism, 21, 43, 53, 69–70, 116 Conrad, Joseph, 190 Conspicuous consumption, 22; and African Americans, 32, 39–45 Contact, 215 Cook, Will Marion, 167 Cool Million, A (West) 215 Cooper, Anna Julia, 66 Coppin, Fannie Jackson, 67 Corporations, “personalization” of, 232–34; rise to prominence, 55; role at World’s Fairs, 69–70 Crane, Hart, 186 Creel, George, 191 Crisis, The, 9, 16, 35, 175, 178–80, 195 Cullen, Countee, 181 Cultural Front, The (Denning), 232 Culture as History (Susman), 27 Culture of Consumption, The (Fox and Lears), 20, 27 Cummings, E. E., 186, 196, 200–202 Cunard, Nancy, 171 Curtis, A. M., 73–74 Dardis, Tom, 183, 190 Dark Laughter (Anderson), 199–200 Darrow, Clarence, 211 Davis, F. James, 157 Day of the Locust, The (West), 16, 215, 229, 236 De Gobineau, Arthur, 30 Denison, John, 87–88 Denning, Michael, 232 Desegregating the Dollar (Weems), 45 292 Index Dialectic of Enlightenment, The (Adorno and Horkheimer), 23, 50 Distinction (Bourdieu), 22, 113–14 Dixon, Thomas, 134, 197, 205 Doolittle, Hilda (H.D.), 186 Dos Passos, John, 13, 212 Douglas, Ann, 81 Douglas, Mary, 22, 25–26 Douglass, Frederick, 70–71, 79 Drake, St. Clair, 38–46, 50 Dreiser, Theodore, 13, 186–87, 196 DuBois, W. E. B., 7, 9, 31, 33–36, 50, 133–34, 146, 148–49, 161, 176, 181, 192–93, 195 DuCille, Ann, 48, 50 Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 167 Dunbar-Nelson, Alice, 195 Dvoák, Antonin...