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Daphne Lamothe
Daphne Lamothe explores how many black writers and intellectuals in the early twentieth century adapted ethnography and folklore in their narratives to create a cohesive, collective, and modern Black identity.
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Developing the idea of 'Black aesthetic time' - a multipronged theoretical concept that analyses the ways race and time collide in the process of cultural production - Daphne Lamothe assesses…
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James Weldon Johnson exemplified the ideal of the American public intellectual as a writer, educator, songwriter, diplomat, and first African American executive of the NAACP. Johnson’s novel The Autobiography of…
New Perspectives contains fresh essays that analyze James Weldon Johnson’s iconic book’s reverberations, the contexts within which it was created and received, the aesthetic and intellectual developments of its author…