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 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 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
The covers of The Crisis characterize the misconstrued thoughts, feelings, and way of life that black people experience in America. These covers are for the hopeful, defiant, and blueprints for the soon-to-be black nationalists. These covers suggest that the New Negro are viable beings. That the New… Continue reading Divine, Defiant, Delight
The Crisis took in many forms. It was known as quarterly magazine, which was published by NAACP. Other 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 a… Continue reading Blog 1 Draft
One of the main things that I notice when looking at the covers of Du Bois’ The Crisis magazine is the prevalence of profiles of people’s faces. Most of the subjects appear to be dressed very formally, either in business looking clothes or in uniform (several of the subjects appear to be in the military,… Continue reading Blog Post 1
Many people try to do things represent black culture in different ways especially in the 1900’s. Du Bois was one of those who represented black culture by putting certain things in the articles like New York Times or New York post etc to shed light on equal rights. As stated in the article “Founding the… Continue reading How Shedding Light On Black Culture Started
Although W.E.B. DuBois is known for his involvement with the NAACP and his periodical, The Crisis, along with being a big player in reconstructing the black visual image, he much preferred book publications rather than magazines. He claimed that our country was “magazine mad,” and that magazines/newspapers were a “festering abomination, hodgepodge of lie, gossip,… Continue reading blog post #1 – Why was The Crisis made into a magazine when DuBois [and others] disliked magazines?
Crisis magazine covers had a revolving tendency of portraits of women, mothers, children, and all gaggles of people in finely trimmed suits. Why did they focus on aesthetically pleasing items? Because they gave off a clean image, that they were pure and untainted, that they had beauty. Why focus on beautiful things? Beautiful things are… Continue reading Beauty of a Century
