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Shane has, moreover, presided over the creation of a lively environment for the study of US history. A copy of this book, which he has read in so many incarnations, can hardly begin to repay my debt. Shane’s unflagging support of this project and his equally unwavering mentorship, to say nothing of coffee and gossip, have been invaluable. My greatest intellectual debt is to Shane White, whose scholarship on the history of slavery inspired me to pursue my own study of African American history. Suffice to say I agree wholeheartedly with its sentiments. I won’t reprint here an ode a former student of mine wrote, singing the praises of the Inter-library Loan office of the University of Sydney Library.
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University, and the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, Austin. I would also like to thank the staffs at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Columbia University, the Moorland-Spingarn Collection at Howard University, the Amistad Research Center at Tulane Andre Elizée, Steven Fullwood, and Tammi Lawson were especially kind. Research for this book included many months in the incomparable Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, where staff in all divisions went above and beyond the call of duty, from my first six-month stint in 1999–2000. My thanks to Michael and to many individuals in archives, libraries, and museums who granted permission for their use.
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Michael Thompson, one of the many terrific students it has been my good fortune to teach at Sydney, undertook with great humor the task of tracking down the copyright holders for those images. The reproduction of the wonderful images in the following pages appear thanks to a generous grant from the Australian Academy of the Humanities. I am grateful for their continued support, including hosting me as a visiting scholar in 2007. In 2003, I met Philip Hosay and Elizabeth Anderson at the Multinational Institute of American Studies at New York University. For these grants I am extremely grateful. A senior scholar fellowship from the Gilder Lehrman society supported a much-needed trip to New York in 2005. Research for Becoming African Americans was made possible by the financial support from the Department of History, School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, the Faculty of Arts, and the Research Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney. Ten years is certainly a goodly length of time in which to accumulate debts, and I have many. It is a great pleasure to acknowledge here the people and institutions who have helped me as I have written this book. “The Black Man’s Burden,” editorial cartoon, New York Amsterdam News, 1939 “Awaiting the Verdict of the Civilized Nations,” Crisis, 1935 “Civilization (?) Wins,” editorial cartoon, New York Amsterdam News, 1936 “Ringtail Blues,” sheet music cover, 1918 James Lesesne Wells, woodblock illustration, 1930 Laura Wheeler, “Africa in America,” Crisis cover, 1924 Simms Campbell, “Harlem Sketches,” New York Amsterdam News, 1935 Primitive Negro Art, cover of exhibition cata log, Brooklyn Museum, 1923Į. Loïs Mailou Jones, The Ascent of Ethiopia, 1932 E185.61.C779 2009 973'.0496073-dc22 2008029259įor Mary Beker, Margarita Beker, and Hal Corbouldģ Institutionalizing Africa, Past and PresentĪaron Douglas, “The Burden of Black Womanhood,” Crisis cover, 1927Īaron Douglas, drawing of mask of Tut-Ankh-Amen, Crisis cover, 1926 African Americans-Social conditions-20th century. Includes bibliographical references and index. Becoming African Americans: Black public life in Harlem, 1919–1939 / Clare Corbould. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Corbould, Clare. Harvard university press Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England Ĭopyright © 2009 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” and “Air Raid Over Harlem” from The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes, edited by Arnold Rampersad with David Roessel, Associate Editor, copyright © 1994 by The Estate of Langston Hughes. Becoming African Americans black public life in harlem, 1919–193 9