Escape from New York [electronic resource] : the New Negro Renaissance beyond Harlem / Davarian L. Baldwin and Minkah Makalani, editors.

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" In the midst of vast cultural and political shifts in the early twentieth century, politicians and cultural observers variously hailed and decried the rise of the "new Negro." This phenomenon was most clearly manifest in the United States through the outpouring of Black arts and letters and social...

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Main Authors: Baldwin, Davarian L. (Author, Editor of compilation)
Makalani, Minkah (Author, Editor of compilation)
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Black people > Race identity > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Race identity > History > 20th century.
Black people > Social conditions > 20th century.
African Americans > Social conditions > 20th century.
Black people > Intellectual life > 20th century.
African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Harlem Renaissance > Influence.
Harlem Renaissance > Social aspects.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2013 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
Variant Title:
Escape from New York: The New Negro Renaissance beyond Harlem
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
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  • Contents
  • Foreword / Robin D.G. Kelley
  • Introduction : New Negroes Forging a New World / Davarian L. Baldwin
  • "Brightest Africa" in the New Negro Imagination / Jeannette Eileen Jones
  • Cuban Negrismo, Mexican Indigenismo : Contesting Neocolonialism in the New Negro Movement / David Luis-Brown
  • An International African Opinion : Amy Ashwood Garvey and C.L.R. James in Black Radical London / Minkah Makalani
  • The New Negro's Brown Brother : Black American and Filipino Boxers and the "Rising Tide of Color" / Theresa Runstedtler
  • The New Negro of the Pacific : How African Americans Forged Solidarity with Japan / Yuichiro Onishi
  • "A Small Man in Big Spaces" : The New Negro, the Mestizo, and Jean Toomer's Southwest / Emily Lutenski
  • Making New Negroes in Cuba : Garveyism as a Transcultural Movement / Frank Guridy
  • Reconfiguring the Roots and Routes of New Negro Activism : The Garvey Movement in New Orleans / Claudrena Harold
  • Black Modernist Women at the Parisian Crossroads / Jennifer Wilks
  • A Mobilized Diaspora : The First World War and Black Soldiers as New Negroes / Chad Williams
  • Climbing the Hilltop : In Search of a New Negro Womanhood at Howard University / Treva Lindsey
  • New Negro Marriages and the Everyday Challenges of Upward Mobility / Anastasia Curwood
  • "You Just Can't Keep the Music Unless You Move With It" : The Great Migration and the Black Cultural Politics of Jazz in New Orleans and Chicago / Charles Lester
  • New Negroes at the Beach : At Work and Play Outside the Black Metropolis / Andrew Kahrl
  • "Home to Harlem" Again : Claude McKay and the Masculine Imaginary of Black Community / Thabiti Lewis
  • Not Just a World Problem : Segregation, Police Brutality, and New Negro Politics in New York City / Shannon King
  • The Conjunctural Field of New Negro Studies / Michelle Ann Stephens
  • Underground to Harlem : Rumblings and Clickety-Clacks of Diaspora / Mark Anthony Neal
  • The Gendering of Place in the Great Escape / Tracy Sharpley-Whiting
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contributors
  • Index.