W. E. B. Du Bois has described the African American at the end of the nineteenth century as "two souls in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder." In the United States today, the hyphen between these two souls--African and American, African-American--is still being negotiated. In Harlem , Spivak engages with thirty-four photographs by photographer Alice Attie as she attempts teleopoiesis , a reaching toward the...