The New Negro in the Old South

by Gabriel A. Briggs

Book Overview

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.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081357479X
• ISBN13: 9780813574790
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"