Measuring the Harlem Renaissance : the U.S. Census, African American Identity, and Literary Form /

Soto, Michael, 1970-

Measuring the Harlem Renaissance : the U.S. Census, African American Identity, and Literary Form / Michael Soto. - Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: The true measure of a renaissance -- Measure for measure for measure: three eras in American racial census taking -- Harlem society: practicing theory -- Harlem diversity: nations within a nation -- Harlem modernity: inventing the new Negro -- Harlem geography: race and the spatial imagination -- Epilogue: census geography and the burdens of representation -- Appendix: race/color categories employed by the U.S. Census, 1790/2010.



9781613764855 9781625342508

2016031027


African Americans in literature.
Modernism (Literature)--United States.
Harlem Renaissance.
American literature--History and criticism.--20th century
American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.


Electronic Books.

PS153 / .M437 2016