Brenna Wynn Greer, "Represented: The Black Imagemakers Who Reimagined American Citizenship" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2019)

New Books in African American Studies · Oct 23, 2019 · 1h 4m

Brenna Wynn Greer’s new study Represented: The Black Imagemakers Who Reimagined American Citizenship (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019), provides a fascinating look at a trio of black imagemakers – publisher John H. Johnson, PR executive Moss Kendrix, and photographer Gordon Parks – who played a critical role in selling the nation civil rights and African American respectability during the middle decades of the twentieth century. Greer offers a dense and highly nuanced analysis of the relationship between race, capitalism, and the modern American state. By demonstrating how black…