James Smethurst: 2 books
The African American Roots of Modernism
From Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
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 response from African American intellectuals. The African...
The Black Arts Movement
Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2006
Emerging from a matrix of Old Left, black nationalist, and bohemian ideologies and institutions, African American artists and intellectuals in the 1960s coalesced to form the Black Arts Movement, the cultural wing of the Black Power Movement. In this comprehensive analysis, James Smethurst examines...