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

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 390-417
Author(s):  
ELISABETH ENGEL

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.


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

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

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

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