The African American Roots of Modernism

The African American Roots of Modernism From Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance - The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780807834633
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Pub date:
Edition: New edition
DEWEY: 810.9896073
DEWEY edition: 22
Number of pages: 252
Weight: 517g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 21mm