The African American Roots of Modernism: From Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance by James Smethurst

The African American Roots of Modernism: From Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance

James Smethurst

252 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

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The period between 1880 and 1918, at the end of which Jim Crow was firmly established and the Great Migration of African Americans was well under way, was not the nadir for black culture, James Smethurst reveals, but instead a time of profound res...

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