The New Negro: Readings on Race, Representation, and African American Culture, 1892-1938

by Gene Andrew Jarrett (Editor), Gene Andrew Jarrett (Editor), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor)

• New

  Paperback
  2007

  $25.75

  When African American intellectuals announced the birth of the 'New Negro' around the turn of the twentieth century, they were attempting through a bold act of renaming to change the way blacks were depicted and perceived in America. This book collects more than one hundred canonical and essays published between 1892 and 1938.