{"id":1551,"date":"2011-08-14T13:34:33","date_gmt":"2011-08-14T03:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digitalharlemblog.wordpress.com\/?p=1551"},"modified":"2011-08-14T13:34:33","modified_gmt":"2011-08-14T03:34:33","slug":"the-black-eagle-of-harlem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drstephenrobertson.com\/digitalharlemblog\/publications\/the-black-eagle-of-harlem\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Black Eagle of Harlem&#8221; in Beyond Blackface: African Americans and the Creation of American Popular Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uncpress.unc.edu\/browse\/book_detail?title_id=1909\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1553\" title=\"Beyond Blackface\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/drstephenrobertson.com\/digitalharlemblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/beyond-blackface.png\" width=\"149\" height=\"226\" \/><\/a>Our article, &#8220;The Black Eagle of Harlem,&#8221; has appeared in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Beyond-Blackface-Americans-Creation-1890-1930\/dp\/0807871842\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1313292227&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Beyond Blackface: African Americans and the Creation of American Popular Culture, 1890-1930<\/em><\/a>, a collection edited by Fitz Brundage and published by the University of North Carolina Press.<\/p>\n<p>The article is a study of Hubert Julian, the black aviator, parachutist and celebrity, considering him as a product of Harlem and the modernity of the 1920s and 1930s.\u00a0 Julian launched himself into prominence with two parachute jumps over Harlem in 1923 and became a fixture flying over funerals and parades.\u00a0 He also made an ill-fated effort to fly across the Atlantic in 1924, drawing a crowd of around 20,000 to watch him takeoff from the Harlem River, on a flight that lasted only a few moments before the plane crashed into Flushing Bay.\u00a0 Successful or not, Julian captivated Harlem as a black exponent of the quintessentially modern marvel of flight.<\/p>\n<p>But Julian&#8217;s style proved as fascinating as any of his accomplishments.\u00a0 He donned clothing ranging from uniforms to the morning dress of an English gentleman, and promoted himself as a spectacle that drew the attention of the black, and on occasion, white press.\u00a0 He attached himself to Marcus Garvey&#8217;s UNIA, and later, Father Divine, had various roles in Haile Selassie&#8217;s Ethiopia, and even co- produced one of Oscar Micheaux&#8217;s films.\u00a0 &#8220;On the move, on the make,&#8221; Hubert Julian embodied the spirit of the 1920s.<\/p>\n<p>For more, see the post <a title=\"Hubert Julian in\u00a0Harlem\" href=\"http:\/\/digitalharlemblog.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/20\/hubert-julian-in-harlem\/\">&#8220;Hubert Julian in Harlem&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Review of <em>Beyond Blackface<\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/jah.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/99\/4\/1267\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Journal of American History (2013) 99 (4): 1267-1268<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our article, &#8220;The Black Eagle of Harlem,&#8221; has appeared in Beyond Blackface: African Americans and the Creation of American Popular&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[16,31,122,127,147,207,208,209,286],"class_list":["post-1551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications","tag-1920s","tag-african-american-celebrity","tag-funerals","tag-harlem","tag-hubert-julian","tag-oscar-micheaux","tag-parachute-jumps","tag-parades","tag-unia"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paM3Ks-p1","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drstephenrobertson.com\/digitalharlemblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drstephenrobertson.com\/digitalharlemblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drstephenrobertson.com\/digitalharlemblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drstephenrobertson.com\/digitalharlemblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drstephenrobertson.com\/digitalharlemblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drstephenrobertson.com\/digitalharlemblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drstephenrobertson.com\/digitalharlemblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drstephenrobertson.com\/digitalharlemblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drstephenrobertson.com\/digitalharlemblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}