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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"New negro"”.
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New Negro Artists and Post-War American Modernism: A Reconsideration
… in formal abstraction associated with the New York School. Many scholars have adhered to this paradigm as a way of privileging post-war abstraction as an evolutionary triumph that left the more narrative art of the pre-war era behind. In this thesis, I argue for a reconfiguration of this …
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The Space Between “Seen” and “Unseen:” Queer People and the 1915-1945 New Negro Renaissance
… was created by a younger generation of New Negroes and “devoted to the younger Negro artists” who dissented from the mainstream ideas of the New Negro Movement and used the magazine to spread their own views on the 1915-1945 New Negro Renaissance. Fire!! and other texts speaking to this …
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"A Shade Too Unreserved": Destabilizing Sexuality and Gender Constructs of the New Negro Identity in Harlem Renaissance Literature
… movement was directly intertwined with the New Negro social movement of the time. Race leaders spoke to and influenced artistic trends, while artists often engaged with the New Negro race issues and social debates through their works. Wallace Thurman, Nella Larsen, and Zora Neale Hurston …
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We Are A New Race:' Booker T. Washington's Use Of African American Spirituals In The Creation Of A New Negro Image
… how Booker T. Washington used music to project a New Negro image to the American public while also instilling the qualities of this New Negro into his students. Washington hoped to uplift the African American race by challenging racial caricatures prominent in American society. Washington's New …
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For the Liberation of Black People Everywhere: The African Blood Brotherhood, Black Radicalism, and Pan -African Liberation in the New Negro Movement, 1917--1936
… as a distinct political tendency during the New Negro Movement. It focuses on how they came to conceptualize the relationship between race, nation, class, and socialism as they related to the Black Freedom Movement in the United States. It argues that the African diasporic community of Harlem …
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"Modern Primitive: Parody, Ambivalence, and Paradox in Paul Colin's Le Tumulte Noir"
… American descent, for example minstrelsy vs. New Negro imagery, this thesis uses several methods for investigating the ambivalence of the artwork and the culture in which it was produced. The double-coding of meaning presented by parody, calligrams, and self-division are central to this …
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Mobilizing jazz communities: the dynamic use of jazz as a political resource in the Black Liberation Struggle, 1925-1965
… century, and has a particular emphasis on the New Negro and Civil Rights Movements. Informed by the perspectives of social movement theorists describing culture’s significance in the development of sustained collective activism, this study demonstrates how culture, through the example of jazz …
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Deeds, Not Words: African American Officers of World War I in the Battle for Racial Equality
… rights' cases, embraced leadership roles in the "New Negro" movement, highlighted the value of educating black youth, and fought to integrate the military. These men served as the vanguard of civil rights fighting first as soldiers for democracy in Europe and returning as leaders determined to …
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The History of “Having It All”: Black and White Women and Work-Life Balance, 1890s-2010s
… with the complementary ideal of the “New Negro Woman,” as it ultimately tracks as well both the practical and conceptual innovations Black women pioneered and the ideological policing of racialized notions of proper motherhood that ensued. Along the way, it offers new insights into the …
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Re/making men and women for the race: Coeducation, respectability and black student leadership at Fisk University, 1924-1970
… a critical interrogation of the influence of New Negro, civil rights and Black Power philosophies on the self-determination of students and their notion of what constituted respectable race leadership between 1924 and 1970. This research is more than just a history of student dissent. …
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Constructions of the Muse: Blues Tribute Poems in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century American Poetry
Moving chronologically from the New Negro Renaissance into the contemporary era, my dissertation examines poetic representations of five blues artists: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Huddie Ledbetter (Leadbelly), and Robert Johnson. Despite extensive scholarship on the blues …
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Black Folk /White Bondage: Race, *Class and the Literature of Sharecropping, 1925--1942
… (or, for many Southerners, intrusive) New Deal reformism, and a Depression-traumatized national culture fascinated with images of both Southern rural suffering (""white bondage"") and literary grotesquery. I see Depression-era Southern writing as a literature of conflict rather than …
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EXPANSIVE MODERNISM: FEMALE EDITORS, LITTLE MAGAZINES, AND NEW BOOK HISTORIES
… few and leave many lost to the archive. The new theory of book history and those who evaluate the book as a material object that is designed to circulate among a range of publics provide powerful and useful frameworks for recognizing the significance of what had previously been considered …
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Ecology of the color line: race and nature in American literature, 1895-1941
… the Washington—Du Bois debates on racial uplift, New Negro cultural nationalism, the Great Migration narrative, black Marxism, and ethnic proletarian literature. Employing methods of environmental historicism, archival research, and intersectional analysis, my project argues not only that …