Inventing the New Negro : : Narrative, Culture, and Ethnography / / Daphne Lamothe.

It is no coincidence, Daphne Lamothe writes, that so many black writers and intellectuals of the first half of the twentieth century either trained formally as ethnographers or worked as amateur collectors of folklore and folk culture. In Inventing the New Negro Lamothe explores the process by which...

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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013]
©2008
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Chapter 1: Ethnography and the New Negro Imagination
  • Chapter 2: Men of Science in the Post-Slavery Era
  • Chapter 3: Raising the Veil: Racial Divides and Ethnographic Crossings in The Souls of Black Folk
  • Chapter 4: Striking Out into the Interior: Travel, Imperialism, and Ethnographic Perspectives in The Autobiography of an Ex -Colored Man
  • Chapter 5: Living Culture in Sterling Brown's Southern Road
  • Chapter 6: Woman Dancing Culture: Katherine Dunham's Dance/ Anthropology
  • Chapter 7: Narrative Dissonance: Conflict and Contradiction in Hurston's Caribbean Ethnography
  • Chapter 8: Their Eyes Were Watching God and the Vodou Intertext
  • Chapter 9: Afterword
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments