Inventing the New Negro: Narrative, Culture, and Ethnography

Table of Contents

Contents 1 Ethnography and the New Negro Imagination 1 2 Men of Science in the Post-Slavery Era 21 3 Raising the Veil: Racial Divides and Ethnographic Crossings in The Souls ofBlack Folk 44 4 Striking Out into the Interior: Travel, Imperialism, and Ethnographic Perspectives in The Autobiography ofan Ex-Colored Man 69 5 Living Culture in Sterling Brown's Southern Road 91 6 Woman Dancing Culture: Katherine Dunham's Dance/Anthropology 115 7 Narrative Dissonance: Conflict and Contradiction in Hurston's Caribbean Ethnography 141 8 Their Eyes Were Watching God and the Vodou Intertext 160 9 Afterword 179 Notes 183 Index 219 Acknowledgments 231 ...