Black Bostonians and the Politics of Culture, 1920-1940

Lorraine Elena Roses

Black Bostonians and the Politics of Culture, 1920-1940
Format
Paperback
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Country
United States
Published
8 February 2017
Pages
240
ISBN
9781625342423

Black Bostonians and the Politics of Culture, 1920-1940

Lorraine Elena Roses

In the 1920s and 1930s Boston became a rich and distinctive site of African American artistic production, unfolding at the same time as the Harlem Renaissance and encompassing literature, theater, music, and visual art. Owing to the ephemeral nature of much of this work, many of the era’s primary sources have been lost.In this book, Lorraine E. Roses employs archival sources and personal interviews to recover this artistic output, examining the work of celebrated figures such as Dorothy West, Helene Johnson, Meta Warrick Fuller, and Allan Rohan Crite, as well as lesser-known artists including Eugene Gordon, Ralf Coleman, Gertrude
Toki
Schalk, and Alvira Hazzard. Black Bostonians and the Politics of Culture, 1920-1940 demonstrates how this creative community militated against the color line not solely through powerful acts of civil disobedience but also by way of a strong repertoire of artistic projects.

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