Making a Promised Land: Harlem in Twentieth-Century Photography and Film

by Paula J. Massood

Making a Promised Land examines the interconnected histories of African American representation, urban life, and citizenship as documented in still and moving images of Harlem over the last century. Paula J. Massood analyzes how photography and film have been used over time to make African American culture visible to itself and to a wider audience and charts the ways in which the "Mecca of the New Negro" became a battleground in the struggle to define...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813555876
• ISBN13: 9780813555874
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary