{"id":9027,"date":"2010-09-20T05:12:11","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T05:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=9027"},"modified":"2011-03-16T04:31:16","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T04:31:16","slug":"the-case-of-ebony-and-topaz-racial-and-sexual-hybridity-in-harlem-renaissance-illustrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=9027","title":{"rendered":"The case of Ebony and Topaz: Racial and Sexual Hybridity in Harlem Renaissance Illustrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>The case of Ebony and Topaz: Racial and Sexual Hybridity in Harlem Renaissance Illustrations<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/american_periodicals\" target=\"_blank\">American Periodicals: A Journal of History, Criticism, and Bibliography<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/american_periodicals\/toc\/amp15.1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 15, Number 1<\/a>, (2005)<br \/>\npages 86-111<br \/>\nE-ISSN: 1548-4238<br \/>\nPrint ISSN: 1054-7479<br \/>\nDOI: 10.1353\/amp.2005.0006<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uh.edu\/gs\/grad_catalog\/2002\/las\/art_faculty.html\" target=\"_blank\">Caroline Goeser<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Art History<br \/>\n<em>University of Houston<\/em><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"352\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.lib.virginia.edu\/exhibits\/rec_acq\/lit\/ebony.html\" target=\"_blank\">&gt;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www2.lib.virginia.edu\/exhibits\/rec_acq\/lit\/images\/ebony.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"right\"><small>University of Virginia<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><em>Ebony and Topaz<\/em> was issued once in 1927 as a collection of essays, poetry, and illustrations edited by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_S._Johnson\" target=\"_blank\">Charles S. Johnson<\/a>, the African American editor of <em>Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life<\/em>. <strong>Though the volume has received little scholarly attention, it articulated the theme of racial hybridity that not only proved an integral component of <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harlem_Renaissance\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Harlem Renaissance<\/strong><\/a><strong> cultural production but marked the diversity of American modernism between the wars.<\/strong> Significantly, Johnson&#8217;s editorial method in <em>Ebony and Topaz<\/em>, which promised minimal interference and direction, allowed his contributors freedom to broach controversial subjects shunned by the more conservative African American editors of the period, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/W._E._B._Du_Bois\" target=\"_blank\">W. E. B. DuBois<\/a>. <strong>As a result, Johnson&#8217;s compendium resisted limitation to the facile theme of racial uplift and challenged restrictive classifications of racial identity.<\/strong> The most culturally subversive production came from two illustrators of <em>Ebony and Topaz<\/em>, Charles Cullen and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brucenugent.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Bruce Nugent<\/a>. Seemingly benign at first glance, their illustrations interrogated the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>[View some of Richard Bruce Nugent\u2019s artwork <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brucenugent.com\/Art%20Frameset.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><em>here<\/em><\/a><em>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/american_periodicals\/v015\/15.1goeser.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The case of Ebony and Topaz: Racial and Sexual Hybridity in Harlem Renaissance Illustrations American Periodicals: A Journal of History, Criticism, and Bibliography Volume 15, Number 1, (2005) pages 86-111 E-ISSN: 1548-4238 Print ISSN: 1054-7479 DOI: 10.1353\/amp.2005.0006 Caroline Goeser, Assistant Professor of Art History University of Houston &gt; University of Virginia Ebony and Topaz was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1196,8,20],"tags":[3862,3861,3863],"class_list":["post-9027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-american-periodicals","tag-caroline-goeser","tag-ebony-and-topaz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}