Measuring the Harlem Renaissance: The U.S. Census, African American Identity, and Literary Form

by Michael Soto

In this provocative study, Michael Soto examines African American cultural forms through the lens of census history to tell the story of how U.S. officialdom--in particular the Census Bureau--placed persons of African descent within a shifting taxonomy of racial difference, and how African American writers and intellectuals described a far more complex situation of interracial social contact and intra-racial diversity. What we now call African American...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625342500
• ISBN13: 9781625342508
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher