Measuring the Harlem Renaissance The U.S. Census, African American Identity, and Literary Form / Michael Soto.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Soto, Michael, 1970- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans in literature.

Modernism (Literature)--United States.

Modernism (Literature).

Harlem Renaissance.

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.

Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century.

Harlem (New York, N.Y.).

United States--Census--History.

United States.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (pages cm)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017

Place of Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2016]

Summary:

In this provocative study, Michael Soto examines African American cultural forms through the lens of census history to tell the story of how U.S.officialdom--in particular the Census Bureau--placed persons of African descent within a shifting taxonomy of racial difference, and how African American writers and intellectuals described a far more.

Contents:

Introduction: The true measure of a renaissance

Measure for measure for measure: three eras in American racial census taking

Harlem society: practicing theory

Harlem diversity: nations within a nation

Harlem modernity: inventing the new Negro

Harlem geography: race and the spatial imagination

Epilogue: census geography and the burdens of representation

Appendix: race/color categories employed by the U.S. Census, 1790/2010.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

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ISBN:

1-61376-485-5

OCLC:

1012281652