Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs

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Chakkalakal, Tess [Author]

Contributor(s):

Warren, Kenneth W

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780820346304

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Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

PS3513 .J563 2013

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Subject: Imperium in Imperio (1899) was the first black novel to countenance openly the possibility of organized black violence against Jim Crow segregation. Its author, a Baptist minister and newspaper editor from Texas, Sutton E. Griggs (1872-1933), would go on to publish four more novels; establish his own publishing company, one of the first secular publishing houses owned and operated by an African American in the United States; and help to found the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Tennessee. Alongside W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington, Griggs was a key political and literary voic.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	PS3513.7154 Z73 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		ocn861558875

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Sutton Griggs and the Borderlands of Empire; Empires at Home and Abroad in Sutton E. Griggs's Imperium in Imperio; Edward Everett Hale's and Sutton E. Griggs's Men without a Country; Moving Up a Dead-End Ladder: Black Class Mobility, Death, and Narrative Closure in Sutton Griggs's Overshadowed; Social Darwinism, American Imperialism, and the Origins of the Science of Collective Efficiency in Sutton E. Griggs's Unfettered; Reading in Sutton E. Griggs.

Sutton E. Griggs against Thomas Dixon's "Vile Misrepresentations": The Hindered Hand and The Leopard's SpotsHarnessing the Niagara: Sutton E. Griggs's The Hindered Hand; Jim Crow and the House of Fiction: Charles W. Chesnutt's and Sutton E. Griggs's Last Novels; Perfecting the Political Romance: The Last Novel of Sutton Griggs; Chronology: The Life and Times of Sutton E. Griggs; Selected Bibliography; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z.

Imperium in Imperio (1899) was the first black novel to countenance openly the possibility of organized black violence against Jim Crow segregation. Its author, a Baptist minister and newspaper editor from Texas, Sutton E. Griggs (1872-1933), would go on to publish four more novels; establish his own publishing company, one of the first secular publishing houses owned and operated by an African American in the United States; and help to found the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Tennessee. Alongside W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington, Griggs was a key political and literary voic.

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