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... on discourse and that allows the explanatory power of a West—and a Veitch. Tom Strychacz, Mills College New Negro, Old Left: African-American Writing and Communism between the Wars. By William J. Maxwell. New...

... on discourse and that allows the explanatory power of a West—and a Veitch. Tom Strychacz, Mills College New Negro, Old Left: African-American Writing and Communism between the Wars. By William J. Maxwell. New...

...Sonnet Retman In this essay, Retman explores Sterling Brown’s radical use of signifying ethnography in his posthumous collection A Negro Looks at the South (2007), a work of mostly unpublished essays written in the early 1940s when Brown journeyed as a participant observer to take stock of African...

... frames of the modernist eye’s mind. Laura Doyle, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Authentic Blackness: The Folk in the New Negro Renaissance. By J. Martin Favor. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 1999. viii, 187 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $17.95. In Authentic Blackness, J. Martin Favor suggests...

... American Literature Blood Talk: American Race Melodrama and the Culture of the Occult. By Susan K. Gillman. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2003. xi, 245 pp. Paper, $19.00. Spectres of 1919: Class and Nation in the Making of the New Negro. By Barbara Foley. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2003. x...

.... $65.00. The Grateful Slave: The Emergence of Race in Eighteenth-Century British and American Culture . By George Boulukos. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2008. viii, 280 pp. $95.00. The Great War and the Culture of the New Negro . By Mark Whalan. Gainesville: Univ. Press...

...Keith Byerman © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 The Man Who Adores the Negro: Race and American Folklore . By Patrick B. Mullen. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2008. xii, 210 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $20.00. The Hammers of Creation: Folk Culture in Modern African...

...Adena Spingarn Abstract This essay examines the production of a dynamic “Old Negro” figure in African American discourse during the New Negro Renaissance. Conflicting impulses to claim the Old Negro as an ancestor and to renounce him as an obstacle to racial progress mirrored a broader tension...

...Travis M. Foster Black Mirror: The Cultural Contradictions of American Racism . By Eric Lott . Cambridge, MA : Harvard Univ. Press . 2017 . xxv, 262 pp. Cloth, $31.00 . Lovable Racists, Magical Negroes, and White Messiahs . By David Ikard . Chicago : Univ. of Chicago...

...Habiba Ibrahim Duke University Press 2006 Playing the Races: Ethnic Caricature and American Literary Realism . By Henry B. Wonham. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2004. viii, 196 pp. $47.50. Enter the New Negroes: Images of Race in American Culture . By Martha Jane Nadell...

... narratives including Alex Haley’s Roots (1976), Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred (1979), Sherley Anne Williams’s Dessa Rose (1986), Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987), Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes (2007), and M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong! (2008), this essay explores the tension between sentimentality...

... include humorous asides from Samuel Ringgold Ward during an 1853 address of the Congregational Union in England, Douglass's speech “The Proclamation and a Negro Army” (1863), and several of Douglass's statements about the racial and political value of his hair from various sources. © 2010 by Duke...

... Women of the Negro Race” (1901–2), this essay first recovers Hopkins’s ambivalent relation to the compulsory neurotypicality of racial uplift politics. “Neurodiverse Afro-Fabulations” then turns to Hopkins’s novel Contending Forces (1900) to foreground how her fiction is interrupted by scenes...

... Teeth about 1936 Harlem. Using archival research, this article analyzes the collage aesthetic of the scrapbook that the activist Thyra J. Edwards compiled in 1937 to record the actions of the Negro People’s Committee to Aid Spain. In sum, this article demonstrates the integral role of African American...

...Kimberly Takahata Abstract In 1796, John Gabriel Stedman’s Narrative, of a Five Years’ Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam was published in London, claiming new insights into the natural world of the colony. Although Stedman generated some reports of Suriname, many of his natural...

...; the scholarly monographs in UNC Press’s Social Study Series; and DuBose Heyward’s popular “Negro novel” Porgy (1925). Across this interdisciplinary tradition, writers of various stripes seek by turns to celebrate and contain the threat of the free but noncapitalist black body. The latter figure, recalling...