The New Negro in the Old South /

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"The New Negro in the Old South redefines our understanding of the idea of the New Negro by following its genealogy back to its historical and geographical origins in the post-Reconstruction nineteenth-century South, where it looks at the literary and cultural factors that influenced the develo...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Briggs, Gabriel A., 1971-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2015]
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Global Cultural Studies.
Subjects:
African Americans > Tennessee > Nashville > History.
Noirs américains > Tennessee > Nashville > Histoire.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
African Americans.
Race relations.
Nashville (Tenn.) > Race relations.
Nashville (Tenn.) > History.
Tennessee > Nashville.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The New Negro genealogy
  • Nashville : a southern black metropolis
  • Soul searching : W.E.B. Du Bois in the "south of slavery"
  • "Mightier than the sword" : the New Negro novels of Sutton E. Griggs
  • "Tried by fire" : the African American boycott of Jim Crow streetcars in Nashville, 1905-1907
  • "Before I'd be a slave" : the Fisk University protests, 1924-1925
  • Epilogue.

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