Cultural contexts for Ralph Ellison's Invisible man /
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| Imprint: | Boston : Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, c1995. |
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| Description: | xi, 258 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | A Bedford documentary companion Bedford documentary companion. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2344029 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- I. "The Scaffolding of a Nation": The Black Belt and Beyond
- Atlanta Exposition Address
- Of Our Spiritual Strivings
- Of Mr. Booker T. Washington
- Founder's Day Address at Tuskegee, 1931
- , Cowards from the Colleges
- , Social Equality
- , Brown v. Board of Education: The Effects of Segregation
- The Shadow of the Plantation
- Tore Up and a-Movin'
- , An Analysis of Negro Patriotism
- The Black Migration
- 12 Million Black Voices
- II. "A Heap of Signifying": Vernacular Culture
- , (What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue
- African American Folk Song, Run, Nigger, Run
- African American Folk Song, Jack the Rabbit! Jack the Bear!
- , The Devil's Son-In-Law
- African American Spiritual, Many Thousands Gone
- Why Mr. Dog Runs Brer Rabbit
- Brer Rabbit and the Goobers
- De Sweet Pertater Man
- Sweet-the-Monkey
- Hip Language
- III. "The City Within a City": Harlem, U. S. A.
- Federal Writers' Project, Portrait of Harlem
- The New Negro
- Blacks in the Labor Movement
- Race Catechism
- Africa for the Africans
- Speech Delivered at Liberty Hall, August 1921
- The Road to Negro Liberation
- Marxism and the American Negro
- Marxism and the Woman Question
- Negro Americans, What Now?
- Harlem Runs Wild
- The Harlem Riot of 1943
- The Negro and the Second World War
- Harlem Is Nowhere
- Bibliography
