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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"James Weldon Johnson"”.
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From exile to transcendence: racial mixture and the journey of revision in the works of Lydia Maria Child, Hannah Crafts, Kate Chopin, James Weldon Johnson, and Jean Toomer
… Lydia Maria Child, Hannah Crafts, Kate Chopin, James Weldon Johnson, and Jean Toomer. It examines each author’s effort to represent the mixed-race character as a constant “process of becoming” (Hall, Questions of Identity 4). This study aims to convey the distinctiveness of the American …
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Cross -Border Critical Race Theory: Black and Native Fiction, American and Canadian Legal Policy
I show how Nella Larsen, James Weldon Johnson, Kate Chopin, William Faulkner, George Schuyler, and Toni Morrison expose and challenge the Black/White binary and one drop rule, targeting their respective contemporary audiences with a specifically American understanding of race. Contemporary Black …
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Two Trains Running: Capture and Escape in the Racialized Train Cars of the Jim Crow South, 1893-1930
… along the way novelists Charles Chesnutt and James Weldon Johnson and musicians W. C. Handy, Henry "Ragtime Texas" Thomas, and Honeyboy Edwards. I find that by studying the train scenes and train sounds produced by these black men under the constraints of the Jim Crow South, we might come to a …
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"Living for the City:" : the political meaning of public housing residents' extraordinary struggle
… through the study of resident activism at the James Weldon Johnson Houses in East Harlem, I examine how institutional arrangements affect public housing residents' agency. I found that it is the particular institutional arrangements that public housing residents reside within-as opposed to a …
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Educational Encounters: (Re)Writing Identity in Twentieth-Century Brazil and the U.S.
… on Afro-descendant and women authors—including James Weldon Johnson, Rachel de Queiroz, Romeu Crusoé, Ralph Ellison, Lygia Fagundes Telles, and Angela Jackson—I analyze how shifts in educational access during the 1910s–1970s influenced these writers’ portrayals of identity as something learned …
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"""By the people"": representative literature and democratic representation in the United States, 1890-1930"
… the work of Hamlin Garland, Vachel Lindsay, and James Weldon Johnson. Each of these writers created specifically literary projects designed to define and represent “the people.” I have chosen these authors because their efforts to represent the sovereign people hinge on the representative claims …
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Neighborhood novels in American literature
… William Dean Howells, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and James Weldon Johnson also recognized that neighborhoods, defined by race and class, as well as geography, provided microcosms of culture central to what Henry James foresaw as "the dauntless fusions to come." In Howells's The Rise of Silas Lapham …