The making of the new negro : black authorship, masculinity, and sexuality in the Harlem renaissance / / Anna Pochmara [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910461341203321
• Autore: Pochmara Anna
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [Amsterdam] : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2011
• ISBN: 1-283-23181-6; 9786613231819; 90-485-1423-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (280 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: American studies
• Disciplina: 810.9896073
• Soggetti: American literature - African American authors - History and criticism; African Americans - Intellectual life; United States Civilization African influences
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Jan 2021).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Ch.1. Prologue : The question of manhood in the Booker T. Washington - W.E.B. Du Bois debate -- PART I : Alain Locke and the new negro -- Ch. 2. Midwifery and camaraderie : Alain Locke's tropes of gender and sexuality -- Ch. 3 Arts, war, and the brave new negro : gendering the black aesthetic -- -- PART 2 : Wallace Thurman and niggerati manor. Ch. 4. Gangsters and bootblacks, rent parties and railroad flats : Wallace Thurman's challenges to the black bourgeoisie -- Ch. 5. Discontents of the black dandy -- Ch. 6. Epilogue : Richard Wright's interrogations of the new negro.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Making of the New Negro examines black masculinity in the period of the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s and 1930s in America and was marked by an outpouring of African American art, music, theater and literature. The Harlem Renaissance, or New Negro Movement, began attracting extensive academic attention in the 1990s as scholars discovered how complex, significant, and fascinating it was. Drawing on African American texts, archives, unpublished writings, and contemporaneous European discourses, this book highlights both the canonical figures of the New ; Negro Movement and African American culture such as W. E. B. Dubois, Booker T. Washington, Alain Locke, and Richard Wright, and other writers such as Wallace Thurman, who have not received as much scholarly attention despite their significant contributions to the movement. Anna Pochmara offers a striking combination of thorough literary analysis and historicist investigation in order to provide novel insights into one of the most important periods of black history in the United States.

The struggle for control of global communication : the formative century / / Jill Hills

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910973832703321
• Autore: Hills Jill
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2002
• ISBN: 9780252091520; 0252091523
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (343 p.)
• Collana: The history of communication
• Disciplina: 384/.09
• Soggetti: Telecommunication - History; Globalization - History; Competition, International - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-314) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Infrastructure and information in the United States of America and Britain, 1840s-1890 -- Following the flag : cable and the British government -- Wireless and the state -- The United States, trade, and communications, 1890s-1917 -- South America : prewar competition in infrastructure and information -- The United States of America : competition for infrastructure in the interwar years -- British communications, 1919-40 -- Cultural production and international relations.
• Sommario/riassunto: Tracing the development of communication markets and the regulation of international communications from the 1840s through World War I, ; Jill Hills examines the political, technological, and economic forces at work during the formative century of global communication. Hills analyzes power relations within the arena of global communications from the inception of the telegraph through the successive technologies of submarine telegraph cables, ship-to-shore wireless, broadcast radio, shortwave wireless, the telephone, and movies with sound. As she shows, global communication began to overtake transportation as an economic, political, and social force after the inception of the telegraph, which shifted communications from national to international. From that point on, information was a commodity and ownership of the communications infrastructure became valuable as the means of distributing information. The struggle for control of that infrastructure occurred in part because British control of communications hindered the growing economic power of the United States. Hills outlines the technological advancements and regulations that allowed the United States to challenge British hegemony and enter the global communications market. She demonstrates that control of global communication was part of a complex web of relations between and within the government and corporations of Britain and the United States. Detailing the interplay between American federal regulation and economic power, Hills shows how these forces shaped communications technologies and illuminates the contemporary systems of power in global communications.