The New Negro: Readings on Race, Representation, and African American Culture, 1892-1938 by Gates, Henry Louis
The New Negro: Readings on Race, Representation, and African American Culture, 1892-1938 by Gates, Henry Louis

The New Negro: Readings on Race, Representation, and African American Culture, 1892-1938

When African American intellectuals announced the birth of the "New Negro" around the turn of the twentieth...
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The New Negro: Readings on Race, Representation, and African American Culture, 1892-1938 by Gates, Henry Louis

The New Negro: Readings on Race, Representation, and African American Culture, 1892-1938

CHF 47.84
The New Negro: Readings on Race, Representation, and African American Culture, 1892-1938 by Gates, Henry Louis

The New Negro: Readings on Race, Representation, and African American Culture, 1892-1938

CHF 47.84
Author: Henry Louis Gates
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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When African American intellectuals announced the birth of the "New Negro" around the turn of the twentieth century, they were attempting through a bold act of renaming to change the way blacks were depicted and perceived in America. By challenging stereotypes of the Old Negro, and declaring that the New Negro was capable of high achievement, black writers tried to revolutionize how whites viewed blacks--and how blacks viewed themselves. Nothing less than a strategy to re-create the public face of "the race," the New Negro became a dominant figure of racial uplift between Reconstruction and World War II, as well as a central idea of the Harlem, or New Negro, Renaissance. Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Gene Andrew Jarrett, The New Negro collects more than one hundred canonical and lesser-known essays published between 1892 and 1938 that examine the issues of race and representation in African American culture.

These readings--by writers including W.E.B. Du Bois, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Alain Locke, Carl Van Vechten, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Wright--discuss the trope of the New Negro, and the milieu in which this figure existed, from almost every conceivable angle. Political essays are joined by essays on African American fiction, poetry, drama, music, painting, and sculpture. More than fascinating historical documents, these essays remain essential to the way African American identity and history are still understood today.

Author: Henry Louis Gates
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 10/28/2007
Pages: 608
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.26lbs
Size: 9.94h x 7.08w x 1.11d
ISBN: 9780691126524


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 11/01/2007 pg. 82

About the Author
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University. His most recent books include Finding Oprah's Roots and The Trials of Phillis Wheatley. Gene Andrew Jarrett is associate professor of English and African American studies at Boston University. He is the author of Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature.
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