Inventing the New Negro: Narrative, Culture, and Ethnography VIZ Media LLC ISBN-10 : 0385526180

ISBN-10 : 0385526180

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0739443585

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Inventing the New Negro: Narrative, Culture, and Ethnography VIZ Media LLC ISBN-10 : 0385526180It is no coincidence, Daphne Lamothe writes, that so many black writers and intellectuals of the first half of the twentieth century either trained formally as ethnographers or worked as amateur collectors of folklore and folk culture. In Inventing the New Negro Lamothe explores the process by which key figures such as Zora Neale Hurston, Katherine Dunham, W. E. B. Du Bois, James Weldon Johnson, and Sterling Brown adapted ethnography and folklore in