| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.3

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Book Review

Art in Crisis: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Struggle for African American Identity and Memory. By Amy Helene Kirschke. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. xii, 284 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 978-0-253-34674-2. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-253-21813-1.)

Amy Helene Kirschke's book is part of a wave of scholarship that focuses on visual texts that appeared in African American books and periodicals in the first decades of the twentieth century. Kirschke's attention is on the illustrations in the Crisis, the monthly magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which was edited by W. E. B. Du Bois from its founding in 1910 until 1934. Kirschke, an associate professor of art history and African American studies at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, includes chapters on Du Bois's long effort to rewrite African American history, the lives and careers of some of the artists whose work appeared in the Crisis, the magazine's coverage and denunciation of lynching, Du Bois's developing theories about art, his efforts to assert and nurture African Americans' understanding of and sense of connection to Africa, and a number of other issues addressed in the Crisis.

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