Artistic ambassadors : literary and international representation of the new negro era / Brian Russell Roberts.
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Language: | English |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2013.
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Physical Description: | xii, 231 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Format: | Book |
Contents:
- The Negro beat: "distinguished colored men" and their representative characters
- Passing into diplomacy: US Consul James Weldon Johnson and the autobiography of an ex-colored man
- Diplomatic and modern representations: George Washington Ellis, Henry Francis Downing, and the myth of Africa
- Metonymies of absence andpresence: Angelina Weld Grimke's Rachel
- Diplomats but ersatz: the hip-to-matic Pan-Africanismof W. E. B. Du Bois and Ida Gibbs Hunt
- The practice of hip-to-macy in the age of public diplomacy: Richard Wright's Indonesian travels
- Epilogue: hipster diplomacy's fall and Barack Obama's forms of things unknown.