The trope of a new negro and the reconstruction of the image of the Black

Author

Gates, Henry Louis

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Representations. 1988, Num. 24, p. 129-155, 32 ill.

ISSN

0734-6018

Abstract (en)

Traces the trope of the New Negro in Afro-American discourse between 1895 and 1925, a period which the author calls the crux of black intellectual reconstruction. Considers literature and art, including several racist advertising images 1880-1920.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1800-1945 -- United States
• Blacks
• Iconography
• Literature
• Art
• Authors
• Artists
• United States
• 1800-2000
• Racism
• Advertising

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1800-1945 -- États-Unis
• Noirs
• Iconographie
• Littérature
• Art
• Auteurs
• Artistes
• Etats-Unis
• 1800-2000
• Racisme
• Publicité

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19910101-00448308

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