New Negroes Forging a New World
New Negroes Forging a New World
This book investigates the Harlem Renaissance in the United States from a new vantage point in an attempt to challenge and expand our understanding of the New Negro experience. Alongside a wider array of cultural expressions, this book argues that the New Negro experience was just one nodal point within a dynamic and uneven circuit of black internationalism. In offering a more comprehensive vision of the New Negro experience, it elucidates what we identify as a global modernity by focusing on the relationship between industry and empire, migration and social movements, and cultural renaissance and mass consumption in the early twentieth century. It decenters Harlem, both as a physical space and as the model for an appropriate “renaissance,” and instead highlights both its geographical and expressive reach beyond New York, beyond national boundaries, across broader fields of activity, and through unconventional modes of cultural expression.
Keywords: black internationalism, Harlem Renaissance, New Negro, industry, empire, migration, social movements, cultural renaissance, mass consumption, New York
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