The Harlem Renaissance and transatlantic modernism

Directors' foreword

Contributors

Lenders to the exhibition

The new Negro artist and the modern Black subject / Denise Murrell

The boys in the back room : gambling imagery during the Harlem Renaissance / Richard J. Powell

A certain realism : the new in "the new negro" portraiture / Emily Braun

James Van Der Zee and the global mobility of photographs / Emilie C. Boone

Queer Harlem : gay sociability and transatlantic modernism / James Smalls

Ronald Moody, international modernist / Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski

Harlem and the Dutch Caribbean / Stephanie Archangel

Artists from the Antilles in interwar Paris / Christelle Loz©·re

Artists for victory and the WPA at The Met : catalytic acquisitions of work by African American artists in the early 1940s / Lowery Stokes Sims

The Harlem Renaissance in exhibition / Bridget R. Cooks

A political pageant : the Harlem Renaissance on parade / Claire Tancons

Plates

List of illustrations

Notes to the essays

Acknowledgments

Index

Photograph credits