The Black Skyscraper

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3315841
AutoresAdrienne Brown (University of Chicago, autor de correspondencia)
Año2013
Volumen85
Número3
Páginas531-561
Fecha de publicación2013-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Literature (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0002-9831 • E-ISSN: 1527-2117
EditorialDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/00029831-1959625
OpenAlexW1983966650
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas20

Brown's essay explores how black modernists W. E. B. DuBois and Wallace Thurman used the skyscraper's abstracted view of the masses to envision raced models of democracy and difference. As urban identity in the 1920s became increasingly associated with ethnic identity, writers used the view from the skyscraper's apex to imagine both utopian and dystopian designs of modern sociality. While lynching and minstrelsy have previously been the primary vehicles for thinking about race, crowds, and visions during the early twentieth century, Thur man and DuBois insist on the significance of skyscraper architecture in creating new racial imaginaries for modern modes of vision

Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Crowds · Democracy · Diversity (politics) · Dystopia · Identity (music) · Literature · Political science · Politics · Race (biology) · Sociology · Utopia · Vision · Anthropology · Architecture, Modernity, and Design · Gender Studies · History · Law · Urban Agriculture and Sustainability · Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation