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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I Reimagining the Past
Chapter 1 Creative Collaboration: As African American as Sweet Potato Pie
Chapter 2 Commemorative Ceremonies and Invented Traditions: History, Memory, and Modernity in the "New Negro" Novel of the Nadir
Part II Meeting Freedom: Self-Invention, Artistic Innovation, and Race Progress (1870s-1880s)
Chapter 3 Landscapes of Labor Race, Religion, and Rhode Island in the Painting of Edward Mitchell Bannister
Chapter 4 "Manly Husbands and Womanly Wives" The Leadership of Educator Lucy Craft Laney
Chapter 5 Old and New Issue Servants "Race" Men and Women Weigh In
Chapter 6 Savannah's Colored Tribune, the Reverend E. K. Love, and the Sacred Rebellion of Uplift
Part III Encountering Jim Crow African American Literature and the Mainstream (1890s)
Chapter 7 A Marginal Man in Black Bohemia: James Weldon Johnson in the New York Tenderloin
Chapter 8 Jamming with Julius: Charles Chesnutt and the Post-Bellum-Pre-Harlem Blues
Chapter 9 Rewriting Dunbar: Realism, Black Women Poets, and the Genteel
Chapter 10 Inventing a "Negro Literature" Race, Dialect, and Gender in the Early Work of Paul Laurence Dunbar, James Weldon Johnson, and Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Part IV Turning the Century New Political, Cultural, and Personal Aesthetics (1900-1917)
Chapter 11 No Excuses for Our Dirt: Booker T.Washington and a "New Negro" Middle Class
Chapter 12 War Work, Social Work, Community Work: Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Federal War Work Agencies, and Southern African American Women
Chapter 13 Antilynching Plays: Angelina Weld Grimké, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and the Evolution of African American Drama
Chapter 14 Henry Ossawa Tanner and W. E. B. Du Bois: African American Art and "High Culture" at the Turn into the Twentieth Century
Chapter 15 The Folk, the School, and the Marketplace: Locations of Culture in The Souls of Black Folk
Topical List of Selected Works
About the Contributors
Index
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I Reimagining the Past
Chapter 1 Creative Collaboration: As African American as Sweet Potato Pie
Chapter 2 Commemorative Ceremonies and Invented Traditions: History, Memory, and Modernity in the "New Negro" Novel of the Nadir
Part II Meeting Freedom: Self-Invention, Artistic Innovation, and Race Progress (1870s-1880s)
Chapter 3 Landscapes of Labor Race, Religion, and Rhode Island in the Painting of Edward Mitchell Bannister
Chapter 4 "Manly Husbands and Womanly Wives" The Leadership of Educator Lucy Craft Laney
Chapter 5 Old and New Issue Servants "Race" Men and Women Weigh In
Chapter 6 Savannah's Colored Tribune, the Reverend E. K. Love, and the Sacred Rebellion of Uplift
Part III Encountering Jim Crow African American Literature and the Mainstream (1890s)
Chapter 7 A Marginal Man in Black Bohemia: James Weldon Johnson in the New York Tenderloin
Chapter 8 Jamming with Julius: Charles Chesnutt and the Post-Bellum-Pre-Harlem Blues
Chapter 9 Rewriting Dunbar: Realism, Black Women Poets, and the Genteel
Chapter 10 Inventing a "Negro Literature" Race, Dialect, and Gender in the Early Work of Paul Laurence Dunbar, James Weldon Johnson, and Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Part IV Turning the Century New Political, Cultural, and Personal Aesthetics (1900-1917)
Chapter 11 No Excuses for Our Dirt: Booker T.Washington and a "New Negro" Middle Class
Chapter 12 War Work, Social Work, Community Work: Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Federal War Work Agencies, and Southern African American Women
Chapter 13 Antilynching Plays: Angelina Weld Grimké, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and the Evolution of African American Drama
Chapter 14 Henry Ossawa Tanner and W. E. B. Du Bois: African American Art and "High Culture" at the Turn into the Twentieth Century
Chapter 15 The Folk, the School, and the Marketplace: Locations of Culture in The Souls of Black Folk
Topical List of Selected Works
About the Contributors
Index