| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.2

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Book Review

Word, Image, and the New Negro: Representation and Identity in the Harlem Renaissance. By Anne Elizabeth Carroll. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. xvi, 275 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-253-34583-9.)

Anne Elizabeth Carroll argues that the myriad visual images accompanying written texts during the Harlem Renaissance offer an important, if often overlooked, key to understanding the period. Carroll claims this cultural moment was defined less by the texts of individual authors than by what she terms "collaborative illustrated volumes" featuring multiple writers and authors (p. 3). These volumes—which included W. E. B. Du Bois's magazine the Crisis, Charles S. Johnson's journal Opportunity, the Harlem issue of the magazine Survey Graphic (1925), Alain Locke's edited book The New Negro (1925), and Wallace Thurman's short-lived magazine Fire!!—were noteworthy because their juxtaposition of visual image with written word enabled them to choreograph competing expectations about the kind of social and political work that representations ought to perform.

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