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When a black writer is found dead at a scandalous interracial party in 1920s' New York, Harlem's cub reporter Zane Pinchback is the only one determined to solve the murder. Zane must go "Incognegro" for the first time, using his light appearance to pass as a white man to find the true killer, in this prequel miniseries to the critically acclaimed Vertigo graphic novel, now available in a special new 10th Anniversary Edition. With a cryptic manuscript as his only clue, and a mysterious and beautiful woman as the murder's only witness, Zane finds himself on the hunt through the dark and dangerous streets of "roaring twenties" Harlem in search for justice. In a time when looks could kill . . . Zane's skin is the only thing keeping him alive.
African Americans --- Passing (Identity) --- Murder --- Investigation. --- Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
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First published in 1955, the book, widely considered a classic of photographic visual literature, was reprinted by public demand several times. This fourth printing, the Heritage Edition, is the first authorized English-language edition since 1983 and includes an afterword by Sherry Turner DeCarava tracing the history and ongoing importance of this book. -- The sweet flypaper of life describes, in words and pictures, what the authors have seen and known and felt deeply about their people. Life in Harlem may be hard; getting up each morning and going to work, knowing that today will be like yesterday and tomorrow. Yet their are rewards, moments - a man walking in the sun, a woman laughing, couples in the park, the watering of a garden on a window sill, a father's touch, a child's glance. "We've had so many books about how bad life is," Langston Hughes says. "Maybe it's time to have one showing how good it is." --
African Americans --- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) --- New York (N.Y.)
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Recipient of a 2017 MacArthur Foundation "genius grant," Dawoud Bey has created a body of photography that masterfully portrays the contemporary American experience on its own terms and in all of its diversity. Dawoud Bey: Seeing Deeply' offers a forty-year retrospective of the celebrated photographer's work, from his early street photography in Harlem to his current images of Harlem gentrification. Photographs from all of Bey's major projects are presented in chronological sequence, allowing viewers to see how the collective body of portraits and recent landscapes create an unparalleled historical representation of various communities in the United States. Leading curators and critics-Sarah Lewis, Deborah Willis, David Travis, Hilton Als, Jacqueline Terrassa, Rebecca Walker, Maurice Berger, and Leigh Raiford-introduce each series of images. Revealing Bey as the natural heir of such renowned photographers as Roy DeCarava, Walker Evans, Gordon Parks, and James Van Der Zee, Dawoud Bey: Seeing Deeply demonstrates how one man's search for community can produce a stunning portrait of our common humanity.
Photography, Artistic --- Photography --- Portrait photography --- African American photographers --- Social aspects --- History --- Bey, Dawoud, --- Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
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Four-year-old TJ spends his days on his lively Harlem block playing with his best friends WT and Blinky and running errands for neighbors. As he comes of age as a "Little Man" with big dreams, TJ faces a world of grown-up adventures and realities. Baldwin's only children's book celebrates and explores the challenges and joys of black childhood. This new edition includes a foreword by Baldwin's nephew Tejan "TJ" Karefa-Smart and an afterword by his niece Aisha Karefa-Smart, with an introduction by two Baldwin scholars. In it we not only see life in 1970s Harlem from a black child's perspective, but we also gain a fuller appreciation of the genius of one of America's greatest writers.
Neighborhoods --- African American children --- African Americans --- African American boys --- Friendship --- Bildungsromans. --- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) --- American literature --- picture books --- illustrations [layout features] --- neighborhoods --- African American --- minorities --- New York City
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This text delves into the street-level experience of a set of African American and Latino teenagers and adults worried about or after them. It argues that the risks and opportunities associated with a poor urban neighbourhood get filtered through smartphones and popular social media sites like Twitter and Facebook.
Online social networks --- Social media --- Digital communications --- African American teenagers --- Afro-American teenagers --- Teenagers, African American --- Teenagers --- Communications, Digital --- Digital transmission --- Pulse communication --- Digital electronics --- Pulse techniques (Electronics) --- Telecommunication --- Digital media --- Signal processing --- User-generated media --- Communication --- User-generated content --- Electronic social networks --- Social networking Web sites --- Social networks --- Sociotechnical systems --- Web sites --- Digital techniques --- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) --- Harlem, New York (City) --- Social conditions. --- Social conditions --- #SBIB:309H103 --- #SBIB:309H402 --- Mediatechnologie / ICT / digitale media: sociale en culturele aspecten --- Media en publiekgroepen: gebruik van de boodschap, effecten van de media, .. --- Virtual communities --- Media en publiekgroepen: gebruik van de boodschap, effecten van de media, . --- Media en publiekgroepen: gebruik van de boodschap, effecten van de media, --- Communities, Online (Online social networks) --- Communities, Virtual (Online social networks) --- Online communities (Online social networks) --- Online social networks - New York (State) - New York --- Social media - New York (State) - New York --- Digital communications - New York (State) - New York --- African American teenagers - New York (State) - New York --- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) - Social conditions
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