Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-340) and index.
Contents:
A riot of images: Harlem and the pursuit of modernity -- Documenting Harlem: images and afterlives -- From Black voices to Black power: Richard Wright and the trial of documentary -- Ralph Ellison, photographer -- Photo-text capital: James Baldwin, Richard Avedon, and the uses of Harlem -- Dodging and burning: the writer and the image after the Civil Rights Era -- Coda looking back: Toni Morrison and the return to Plato's cave.
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