Black skin, blue books : African Americans and Wales, 1845-1945 /
Williams, Daniel G.
Black skin, blue books : African Americans and Wales, 1845-1945 / Daniel G. Williams. - Cardiff : University of Wales Press, (c)2012. - 1 online resource (xiv, 357 pages) : illustrations. - Writing Wales in English CREW series of critical and scholarly studies .
Includes bibliographies and index.
General Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Illustrations; Introduction; Black Skin, Blue Books: Frederick Douglass, Abolitionism and Victorian Wales; 'In the Wide Margin': Modernism and Ethnic Renaissance in Harlem and Wales; 'They feel me a part of that land': Paul Robeson, Race and the Making of Modern Wales; The Invisible Man's Welsh Routes: Ralph Ellison in Wartime Wales; Conclusion: 1945; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
This is a ground breaking comparative study of the fascinating connections between African Americans and the Welsh, beginning in the era of slavery and concluding with the experiences of African American GIs in wartime Wales.
9780708325322 9780708319871
African Americans.
Welsh.
English literature--Wales.
National characteristics, Welsh.
Electronic Books.
E185 / .B533 2012
Black skin, blue books : African Americans and Wales, 1845-1945 / Daniel G. Williams. - Cardiff : University of Wales Press, (c)2012. - 1 online resource (xiv, 357 pages) : illustrations. - Writing Wales in English CREW series of critical and scholarly studies .
Includes bibliographies and index.
General Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Illustrations; Introduction; Black Skin, Blue Books: Frederick Douglass, Abolitionism and Victorian Wales; 'In the Wide Margin': Modernism and Ethnic Renaissance in Harlem and Wales; 'They feel me a part of that land': Paul Robeson, Race and the Making of Modern Wales; The Invisible Man's Welsh Routes: Ralph Ellison in Wartime Wales; Conclusion: 1945; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
This is a ground breaking comparative study of the fascinating connections between African Americans and the Welsh, beginning in the era of slavery and concluding with the experiences of African American GIs in wartime Wales.
9780708325322 9780708319871
African Americans.
Welsh.
English literature--Wales.
National characteristics, Welsh.
Electronic Books.
E185 / .B533 2012