The New Race Consciousness: Race, Nation, and Empire in American Culture, 1910-1925

Guterl, Matthew Pratt

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“…Early in the twentieth century, New Negroes cleared a space for African American writers to inscribe their differences in viewpoint, thematics, aesthetics, and so forth into the literature of the United States (Guterl 1999). The emphasis here on literature in no way separates writers from other cultural producers such as painters, dancers, musicians, filmmakers, and photographers, working during the cultural moment many people frequently refer to as the Harlem Renaissance.…”

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Mapping the Terrain of Black Writing during the Early New Negro Era

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2015

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The literary movement that so many refer to as the “Harlem Renaissance” remains contested terrain and the need to periodize and name the movement is ongoing. As the literary production of the New Negro era came to a close, participants in the literary movement such as Zora Neale Hurston, Sterling Brown, Wallace Thurman, James Weldon Johnson, Dorothy West, Arna Bontemps, Langston Hughes, Alain Locke, W. E. B. Du Bois, Charles S. Johnson and others gave different accounts of its value, its beginnings, and its end. Subsequently, historians and literary scholars, as well as New Negro Movement participants, have found very little consensus on key questions of periodization. This essay returns to the question of periodizing this movement by identifying a broad range of its distinguishing characteristics and by bracketing its duration, although with a clear recognition that the temporal frame and characteristics may be re-positioned yet again. The project here is not to determine the perceived failure or success of the literary movement or the collective quality of the literary production, a project that would involve determining by whose standards of success, failure, or quality such judgments would be made. This study of the New Negro era expands its boundaries and opens a space for engaging the literary movement by mapping it in ways that scholars too often have deemphasized or have not explored.

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Mapping the Terrain of Black Writing during the Early New Negro Era

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Basepaths to Empire: Race and the Spalding World Baseball Tour

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2007

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During the Gilded Age, transnational American agents carried national values abroad, including defense of the "civilizing mission" of the white race toward people of color. This article explores race within the context of the Spalding world baseball tour of 1888-89, a transnational enterprise that marketed the national pastime abroad and, in so doing, indicated the latent, private power behind the official policies of the United States. A rather unusual segment of society to be considered for such scholarly treatment, professional baseball elites nonetheless helped generate a racist imperial ideology and thus added to the voices that set racial parameters for the American empire when it was attained in 1898. By tracing the racial attitudes of the baseball tourists, this article contributes to recent scholarly enterprises that examine foreign relations from a cultural perspective and integrate overlooked actors into the study of diplomatic history.

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The New Race Consciousness: Race, Nation, and Empire in American Culture, 1910-1925

Cited by 11 publications

References 81 publications

Mapping the Terrain of Black Writing during the Early New Negro Era

Mapping the Terrain of Black Writing during the Early New Negro Era

Introduction

Basepaths to Empire: Race and the Spalding World Baseball Tour

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