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Escape from New York: The New Negro Renaissance beyond Harlem
Davarian L. Baldwin (Ed.)
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Description for Escape from New York: The New Negro Renaissance beyond Harlem
Paperback. Editor(s): Baldwin, Davarian L.; Makalani, Minkah. Num Pages: 416 pages, 11 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; HBJK; HBLW; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 30. Weight in Grams: 816.
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 commentary known as the Harlem Renaissance. What is less known is how far afield of Harlem that renaissance flourished-how much the New Negro movement was actually just one part of a collective explosion of political protest, cultural expression, and intellectual debate all over the world. In this volume, the Harlem Renaissance ... Read more
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 commentary known as the Harlem Renaissance. What is less known is how far afield of Harlem that renaissance flourished-how much the New Negro movement was actually just one part of a collective explosion of political protest, cultural expression, and intellectual debate all over the world. In this volume, the Harlem Renaissance ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
815g
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816677399
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V9780816677399
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About Davarian L. Baldwin (Ed.)
Davarian L. Baldwin is the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies at Trinity College. He is the author of Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life.
Reviews for Escape from New York: The New Negro Renaissance beyond Harlem
This anthology succeeds in liberating New Negro studies from Harlem and its traditional temporal, gender, and class confines. -Journal of African American History This collection of essays registers the polyvalent, internationalist, and coalition-building character of the New Negro movement more comprehensively than any other text to date. Escape from New York is essential reading for those ... Read more