The New Negro in the Old South /

The New Negro in the Old South /

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Author / Creator:	Briggs, Gabriel A., 1971- author.
Imprint:	New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2015]
Description:	x, 226 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	African Americans -- Tennessee -- Nashville -- History. African Americans. Race relations. Nashville (Tenn.) -- Race relations. Nashville (Tenn.) -- History. Tennessee -- Nashville. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10388731

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ISBN:	9780813574790 081357479X 9780813574783 0813574781 9780813574806 9780813574813
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"The New Negro in the Old South redefines our understanding of the idea of the New Negro by following its genealogy back to its historical and geographical origins in the post-Reconstruction nineteenth-century South, where it looks at the literary and cultural factors that influenced the development of a modern African American, and ultimately, a New Negro identity. In this context, Briggs makes a compelling case that nineteenth-century, postbellum Nashville provided the locus of the economic, intellectual, social, and political concepts that shaped the strands of African American cultural and intellectual identity that consolidated around the term 'the New Negro' in the early twentieth century. In addition to fresh critical perspectives on such figures as W.E.B. Du Bois and Sutton Griggs, The New Negro in the Old South reexamines forgotten strands of New Negro cultural history, including turn-of-the-century southern streetcar strikes and black college rebellions. He demonstrates that post-Reconstruction Nashville, therefore, rather than New York or Chicago, was the formative site in the emergence of a New Negro, whose identity stood in vivid contrast to the compliant, rural and under-educated African American who preceded it"--

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Summary:	Standard narratives of early twentieth-century African American history credit the Great Migration of southern blacks to northern metropolises for the emergence of the New Negro, an educated, upwardly mobile sophisticate very different from his forebears. Yet this conventional history overlooks the cultural accomplishments of an earlier generation, in the black communities that flourished within southern cities immediately after Reconstruction. <br> <br> <br> <br> In this groundbreaking historical study, Gabriel A. Briggs makes the compelling case that the New Negro first emerged long before the Great Migration to the North. The New Negro in the Old South reconstructs the vibrant black community that developed in Nashville after the Civil War, demonstrating how it played a pivotal role in shaping the economic, intellectual, social, and political lives of African Americans in subsequent decades. Drawing from extensive archival research, Briggs investigates what made Nashville so unique and reveals how it served as a formative environment for major black intellectuals like Sutton Griggs and W.E.B. Du Bois.<br> <br> <br> <br> The New Negro in the Old South makes the past come alive as it vividly recounts little-remembered episodes in black history, from the migration of Colored Infantry veterans in the late 1860s to the Fisk University protests of 1925. Along the way, it gives readers a new appreciation for the sophistication, determination, and bravery of African Americans in the decades between the Civil War and the Harlem Renaissance.
Physical Description:	x, 226 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780813574790 081357479X 9780813574783 0813574781 9780813574806 9780813574813