Foxboy intimacy and aesthetics in Andean stories / by Allen, Catherine J.

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Making a promised land Harlem in twentieth-century photography and film / by Massood, Paula J., 1965-

Table of Contents: “…The era of the new Negro: African American politics and aesthetics in twentieth century Harlem -- African American aesthetics and the city: picturing the Black bourgeoisie in New York -- Heaven and hell in Harlem: urban aesthetics for a renaissance people -- Delinquents in the making: Harlem's representational turn toward "marketable shock" -- Gangster's paradise: drugs and crime in Harlem, from Blaxploitation to New Jack cinema -- Echoes of a renaissance: Harlem's nostalgic turn -- Conclusion: making and re-making a promised land: Harlem's continuing revisions.…”
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Impossible returns : narratives of the Cuban diaspora / by López, Iraida H.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the poetics of return 1 -- An uphill battle: the contentious politics of return -- Daring to go back: in search of traces -- Ana Mendieta: chiseling (in) Cuba -- Cuban childhood redux -- Vicarious returns and a usable past in the Agüero Sisters, days of awe, and loving che -- Toward a boomerang aesthetic: the view from the island.…”
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Chicago's new Negroes modernity, the great migration, & Black urban life / by Baldwin, Davarian L.

Table of Contents: “…: consumer culture and intellectual life reconsidered -- Mapping the Black metropolis: a cultural geography of the stroll -- Making do: beauty, enterprise, and the "makeover" of race womanhood -- Theaters of war: spectacles, amusements, and the emergence of urban film culture -- The birth of two nations: White fears, Black jeers, and the rise of a "race film" consciousness -- Sacred tastes: the migrant aesthetics and authority of gospel music -- The sporting life: recreation, self-reliance, and competing visions of race manhood -- Epilogue. …”
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