Gabriel a Briggs

The New Negro in the Old South

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Produktbeschreibung

Makes the compelling case that the New Negro first emerged long before the Great Migration to the North. The New Negro in the Old South reconstructs the vibrant black community that developed in Nashville after the Civil War, demonstrating how it played a pivotal role in shaping the economic, intellectual, social, and political lives of African Americans in subsequent decades.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9780813574783
• ISBN-10: 0813574781
• Artikelnr.: 42743903

Autorenporträt

GABRIEL A. BRIGGS is a senior lecturer in the English department at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. 

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1          The New Negro Genealogy
2          Nashville: A Southern Black Metropolis
3          Soul Searching: W. E. B. Du Bois in the “South of Slavery”
4          “Mightier than the Sword’: The New Negro Novels of Sutton E.
Griggs
5          “Tried by Fire”: The African American Boycott of Jim Crow
Streetcars in Nashville, 1905–1907
6          “Before I’d Be a Slave”: The Fisk University Protests 1924–1925
Epilogue
Notes
Index