Making a promised land : Harlem in twentieth-century photography and film

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Making a promised land : Harlem in twentieth-century photography and film

Title remainder

Harlem in twentieth-century photography and film

Statement of responsibility

Paula J. Massood

Creator

• Massood, Paula J., 1965-

Subject

• African American neighborhoods
• African American neighborhoods -- New York (State) | New York
• Electronic books
• HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local | General
• HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local | Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
• HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local | New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
• Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century
• 1900-1999
• History
• Motion pictures
• New York (State) -- New York
• New York (State) -- New York | Harlem
• PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video | History & Criticism
• Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- In motion pictures

Genre

• History
• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

In Making a Promised Land, Paula J. Massood 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. She 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 Harlem, the "Mecc

Cataloging source

N$T

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography