The Trope of a New Negro and the Reconstruction of the Image of the Black

1988 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Keyword(s):  
New Negro

New Negro Politics in the Jim Crow South. By Claudrena Harold

2017 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 187-189
Author(s):  
Davarian L Baldwin
Keyword(s):  
Jim Crow ◽  
New Negro ◽  
Jim Crow South

Southern Looks? A History of African American Missionary Photography of Africa, 1890s–1930s

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 390-417
Author(s):  
ELISABETH ENGEL
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Christian Missions ◽  
Us South ◽  
New Negro ◽  
American Institution ◽  
African Methodist Episcopal Church ◽  
The Us ◽  
Methodist Episcopal Church ◽  
History Of ◽  
Visual Description

This article traces and analyzes the missionary photography of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME), the most important independent black American institution that began to operate in colonial South Africa at the onset of the politics of racial segregation in the 1890s. It argues that AME missionary photography presents a neglected archive, from which a history of black photographic encounters and a subaltern perspective on the dominant visual cultures of European imperialism and Christian missions in Africa can be retrieved. Focussing in particular on how AME missionaries deployed tropes of the culturally refined “New Negro” and the US South in their visual description of South Africa, this article demonstrates that photography was an important tool for black subjects to define their image beyond the representations of black inferiority that established visual traditions constructed.

The Trope of a New Negro and the Reconstruction of the Image of the Black

1988 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 129-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Louis Gates,
Keyword(s):  
New Negro

Great Black Expectations: From New Negro to New Hero

2015 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 369-382
Author(s):  
Keith Gilyard
Keyword(s):  
New Negro

Enter and Exit the New Negro – Von unsichtbaren Sichtbarkeiten

2012 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 212-227
Author(s):  
Nana Adusei-Poku
Keyword(s):  
New Negro
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