| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.3

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Book Review

Enter the New Negroes: Images of Race in American Culture. By Martha Jane Nadell. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. xiv, 199 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-674-01511-8.)
Martha Jane Nadell offers a clear and fascinating discussion of the ways images of African Americans that appeared alongside black writers' texts of the 1920s through the 1940s sought to shape American racial perceptions. In doing so, Nadell expands our understanding of African American artistic attempts to answer the question "What is a Negro?" with more nuance and less caricature. The efforts of black writers to break down white stereotypes of African Americans have been much examined by historians and literary scholars, but the impact of images—paintings, drawings, illustrations, photographs—done for those same African American writers has been less studied.	1
After surveying older images of African Americans, Nadell examines the illustrations selected by Alain Locke for a 1925 Survey Graphic issue (and later an anthology) on the New Negro; those selected by Wallace Thurman for his journals Fire! and Harlem; and illustrations for Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men (1935), Richard Wright's Twelve Million Black Voices (1941), and finally Langston Hughes's collection of poetry, One Way Ticket (1949). She carefully documents the ways the artists both underscored and made more complex the arguments of the texts, challenging contemporary assumptions about race and about African American life and culture.	. . .

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