| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.4

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Anne Elizabeth Carroll. Word, Image, and the New Negro: Representation and Identity in the Harlem Renaissance. (Blacks in the Diaspora.) Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2005. Pp. xiv, 275. $45.00.

In the now extensive scholarship on the Harlem Renaissance, the question of representation has been an important if not always central intellectual concern. However, as the title of her book suggests, Anne Elizabeth Carroll makes representation the central problematic to be addressed. In particular, she is focused on how meaning results from the interplay of texts and the great variety of visual markers that fill these texts. The question of identity is intimately linked with the forms and conventions of representation. Carroll provides a fresh, exciting, and insightful perspective on how African Americans sought both to come to terms with and to change the ways they were understood—and misunderstood—in the first three decades of the twentieth century.

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