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Authentic Blackness: The Folk in the New Negro Renaissance
J. Martin Favor
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Description for Authentic Blackness: The Folk in the New Negro Renaissance
Paperback. Presents the Harlem Renaissance, exploring early challenges to the idea that race is a static category. Drawing on vernacular theories of African American literature from figures such as Henry Louis Gates Jr and Houston Baker, this book looks at the work of four fiction writers: James Johnson, Nella Larsen, George Schuyler, and Jean Toomer. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB; JFC; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 331.
What constitutes “blackness” in American culture? And who gets to define whether or not someone is truly African American? Is a struggling hip-hop artist more “authentic” than a conservative Supreme Court justice? In Authentic Blackness J. Martin Favor looks to the New Negro Movement—also known as the Harlem Renaissance—to explore early challenges to the idea that race is a static category.
Authentic Blackness looks at the place of the “folk”—those African Americans “furthest down,” in the words of Alain Locke—and how the representation of the folk and the black middle class both spurred the New Negro Movement and became one ... Read more
What constitutes “blackness” in American culture? And who gets to define whether or not someone is truly African American? Is a struggling hip-hop artist more “authentic” than a conservative Supreme Court justice? In Authentic Blackness J. Martin Favor looks to the New Negro Movement—also known as the Harlem Renaissance—to explore early challenges to the idea that race is a static category.
Authentic Blackness looks at the place of the “folk”—those African Americans “furthest down,” in the words of Alain Locke—and how the representation of the folk and the black middle class both spurred the New Negro Movement and became one ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Series
New Americanists
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822323457
SKU
V9780822323457
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About J. Martin Favor
J. Martin Favor is Assistant Professor of English at Dartmouth College.
Reviews for Authentic Blackness: The Folk in the New Negro Renaissance
“Authentic Blackness marks an advance on current work on the Harlem Renaissance. Favor’s examination of how ‘race’ as a critical concept was destabilized by Harlem Renaissance writers makes an important contribution to our thinking of the period.”—Theodore O. Mason, Kenyon College “J. Martin Favor has done the field of African American literary and cultural studies a profound service. His readings ... Read more