Becoming African Americans : Black public life in Harlem, 1919-1939 / Clare Corbould.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Corbould, Clare.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--History--1877-1964.

African Americans.

African Americans--Race identity.

African Americans--Social conditions--20th century.

African diaspora.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.

Summary:

Africa has always played a role in black identity, but it was in the tumultuous period between the two world wars that black Americans first began to embrace a modern African American identity. Throwing off the legacy of slavery and segregation, black intellectuals, activists, and organizations sought a prouder past in ancient Egypt and forged links to contemporary Africa. Their consciousness of a dual identity anticipated the hyphenated identities of new immigrants in the years after World War II, and an emerging sense of what it means to be a modern American.

Contents:

Africa the motherland

Discovering a usable African past

Institutionalizing Africa, past and present

The artistic capital of Africa

"That land of freedom" : Haiti, primitivism, and Black American identity

Ethiopia ahoy!

Conclusion : what's in a name?.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-270) and index.

ISBN:

9780674053656

0674053656

OCLC:

648760634