Language
English (en)
Prize Year
2025
Document Type
Unrestricted
Abstract
This essay explores how hope among migrants of the Great Migration was shaped by positive depictions of African Americans in photography, particularly through the work of Harlem Renaissance photographer James VanDerZee. It argues that these images offered migrants a vision of their desired futures, but true hope depended on the actions taken to realize those visions.
Recommended Citation
Greene, Kerri, "Understanding the Role of Hope on the African American Identity through James VanDerZee's Wedding Day Harlem, 1926" (2025). Dean James E. McLeod Freshman Writing Prize. 32.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/mcleod/32
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Comments
Dean James E. McLeod Freshman Writing Prize, 2025