Making a Promised Land: Harlem in Twentieth-Century Photography and Film

Contents

ix CONTENTS 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 ...