Representing the Race, 2011, p.73-100
2011
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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- New Negro Politics from Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance
- Ist Teil von
- Representing the Race, 2011, p.73-100
- Ort / Verlag
- New York, USA: NYU Press
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2011
- Link zum Volltext
- Quelle
- Alma/SFX Local Collection
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- From Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance, the symbolic transition of the “Negro” from “Old” to “New” is one of the more compelling stories of the competition of ideological scripts, especially as they pertain to racial representation, in the United States.¹ In 1923, the Reverend Reverdy C. Ransom wrote a poem, “The New Negro,” capturing the trope of the New Negro in all its complexity and optimism: Rough hewn from the jungle and the desert’s sands, Slavery was the chisel that fashioned him to form, And gave him all the arts and sciences had won. The lyncher, mob, and stake have
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISBN: 9780814743386, 0814743382DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814743386.003.0003Titel-ID: cdi_walterdegruyter_books_10_18574_nyu_9780814743386_003_0003
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- African American culture, African American intellectuals, African American literature, African American studies, African Americans, American minorities, American studies, Anthropology, Arts, Behavioral sciences, Black communities, Communities, Contemporary periods, Cultural Studies, Ethnic groups, Ethnography, Ethnology, Historical periods, History, Human societies, Literary history, Literary studies, Literature, Modern Era, New Negro politics, political action, Political debate, Political processes, Political science, Politics, Post World War I period, racial uplift, Renaissance literature, Social groups, Sociology, White people