The African American roots of modernism : from Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance /

In identifying the Jim Crow period with the coming of modernity, Smethurst upsets the customary assessment of the Harlem Renaissance as the first nationally significant black arts movement, showing how artists reacted to Jim Crow with migration narratives, poetry about the black experience, and more...

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Main Author: Smethurst, James Edward
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : University of North Carolina Press, 2011
Series:John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central