The Cleveland Gazette, an African-American weekly newspaper, once wrote “A class of colored people, the “New Negro”… have arisen since the War, with education, refinement, and money.” In other words, after the Civil War and the nine years of reconstruction, African-Americans immediately began the game of ketchup and began to establish themselves as American citizens.… Continue reading Blog Post #1 The “New” Negro
The Crisis started out as a publication with the intent of highlighting real African American culture. The many aesthetically pleasing covers we see not only created a national buzz, but they also emphasized identity. “The Crisis in its layout and content stages a jointly political and aesthetic conflict. Columns of numbers arranged chronologically, building… Continue reading Crisis Queen
The covers of the Crisis are able to communicate the changing circumstances that African Americans faced in America. Some of those cover images on the magazines depict moments of hardship as well as moments of prosperity they have gone through from the time up to and time during the Harlem Renaissance. The covers of the… Continue reading The Covers of Crisis
The Crisis was a very educated magazine that was used as a recruiting tool for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. This magazine has had an impact and was very popular and was mainly concentrated on African American history, politics, culture, social injustice, and their rights. The implications of “the New Negro… Continue reading The Crisis vs. Racism
Looking through the covers of The Crisis it is clear that this publication was meant to do at least one thing. The first was reinvention. At the turn of the 20th century, Black Americans saw themselves longing to create a new public image that decentered the stereotypes of the “Sambo” or the “Zip Coon”. Both… Continue reading Blog Post #1
The covers of The Crisis communicate the “normality” as well as the Black perspective about the Black experiences in America because it is a direct parallel of their experiences at the time and their perspective and contributions to the different movements including art, and the first world war it shows or is an example of… Continue reading Reality versus expectations: how media shapes reality past present and future
The January 1920 cover of The Crisis, featuring a a photograph of a black woman in a head wrap smiling, clearly stands out among the magazine’s cover images. Though many of the magazine’s covers feature women, only a small number of them are photographs rather than illustrations, and an even smaller number feature the woman… Continue reading Blog Post #1: Woman of Santa Lucia and The Young Graduate
The Crisis took in many forms. It was known as a quarterly magazine, which was published by NAACP. Others believed that The Crisis was W.E.B Dubois himself that captured his ideas and opinions. Despite what people may think, we can all agree that The Crisis captured the Black experience in America. Considering the Black experience… Continue reading The First Crisis Discovered
The words “reconstruction” and “representation” play crucial roles in “The Trope of a New Negro” reading. These two words represents the importance of Black people’s new chosen identity post-slavery. Is there any relevance to white people’s influences and opinions on Black people in the U.S.? Should their influences and opinions be eliminated, and replaced under… Continue reading Crisis Mag Post#1: New Chosen Identity
The Crisis was a unique publication for its time. This magazine showed the insight into the experiences and lives of a group of people who for most of American history were held down by a racial caste system. In America, people of African descent were outcasted by the society, seen as people who couldn’t become… Continue reading Blog Post 1 Final