The New Negro. Readings on Race, Representation, and African American Culture, 1892-1938
Editorial PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
Festland Spanien
- Verlag PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780691126524
- ISBN10 0691126526
- Gegenstandsart Buch
- Buchseiten 591
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2007
- Sprache Englisch
- Bindung Gebunden
Abschnitte
Geschichte AfrikasThe New Negro. Readings on Race, Representation, and African American Culture, 1892-1938
Editorial PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
Festland Spanien
Buch Details
When African American intellectuals announced the birth of the "New Negro" around the turn of the twentieth century, they were attempting through a bold act of renaming to change the way blacks were depicted and perceived in America. By challenging stereotypes of the Old Negro, and declaring that the New Negro was capable of high achievement, black writers tried to revolutionize how whites viewed blacks--and how blacks viewed themselves. Nothing less than a strategy to re-create the public face of "the race," the New Negro became a dominant figure of racial uplift between Reconstruction and World War II, as well as a central idea of the Harlem, or New Negro, Renaissance. Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Gene Andrew Jarrett, The New Negro collects more than one hundred canonical and lesser-known essays published between 1892 and 1938 that examine the issues of race and representation in African American culture.