The African American Roots of Modernism: From Reconstruction to the Harlem RenaissanceThe period between 1880 and 1918, at the end of which Jim Crow was firmly established and the Great Migration of African Americans was well under way, was not the nadir for black culture, James Smethurst reveals, but instead a time of profound response fr |
Contents
New Forms and Captive Knights in the Age of Jim Crow and Mechanical Reproduction | 1 |
Dueling Banjos African American Dualism and Strategies for Black Representation at the Turn of the Century | 27 |
Remembering Those Noble Sons of Ham Poetry Soldiers and Citizens at the End of Reconstruction | 66 |
The Black City The Early Jim Crow Migration Narrative and the New Territory of Race | 96 |
Somebody Elses Civilization African American Writers Bohemia and the New Poetry | 123 |
A Familiar and Warm Relationship Race Sexual Freedom and US Literary Modernism | 155 |
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