Miriam Thaggert is the author of Images of Black Modernism: Verbal and Visual Strategies of the Harlem Renaissance (2010). Her essays have appeared in African American Review, American Literary History, American Quarterly, Feminist Modernist Studies, and Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism. With Rachel Farebrother, she co-edited The History of the Harlem Renaissance (2021). Rachel Farebrother is the author of The Collage Aesthetic in the Harlem Renaissance (2009). Her essays have appeared in Journal of American Studies, MELUS, Modernism/modernity, and various edited collections. With Miriam Thaggert, she co-edited The History of the Harlem Renaissance (2021).

• Introduction: Expecting more: African American literature in transition, 1920-30 Miriam Thaggert and Rachel Farebrother; Part I. Habitus, Sound, Fashion: 1. New Negro literary décor: Competing tastes in 1920s Cherene Sherrard-Johnson; 2. The new Negro movement's recording imaginary Sonnet Retman; 3. Sartorial self-fashioning in the Harlem renaissance Kimberly Lamm; Part II. Space: Chronicles of Harlem and Beyond: 4. Going Dutch: From renaissance Haarlem to the Harlem renaissance Michael Soto; 5. The unmaking of the new Mecca Shannon King; 6. Subversions of Boasian objectivity in Zora Neale Hurston's great migration fiction and ethnography M. Genevieve West; 7. W. E. B. Du Bois and the fluid subject: Dark princess and the splendid transnational in the Harlem renaissance Inés Valdez; Part III. 'Uplift' Renewed: Religion, Protest and Education: 8. 'The sinful babel of the airshaft': Rudolph fisher's fiction and religion, urban space and modernity in the Harlem renaissance Rachel Farebrother; 9. Marcus Garvey: Popular culture and black liberation Heather D. Russell; 10. Progression or reversion of the black race?: Historically black colleges in Nella Larsen's Quicks and Angela Watkins; Part IV. Serial Reading: Magazines and Periodical Culture: 11. The midnight motion picture company goes to Europe: The Harlem renaissance and global white supremacy Adam McKible; 12. African American magazine modernism John K. Young.