Cultural Contexts for Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man A Bedford Documentary Companion

Name: Cultural Contexts for Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man A Bedford Documentary Companion
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ISBN: 9780312100810

ISBN-10: 0312100817

ISBN-13: 9780312100810

Edition: N/A

Authors: Eric J. Sundquist

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A unique supplement to one of the most important African American novels of this century. As Invisible Man chronicles the major moments of African American life during the first half of the twentieth century, this volume illuminates and contextualizes the novel with a collection of speeches, essays, folktales, historical analyses, photographs, and other cultural and historical documents.

Book details

List price: $14.99
Publisher: Bedford/Saint Martin's
Publication date: 2/15/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 258
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



"The Scaffolding of a Nation": The Black Belt and Beyond


Atlanta Exposition Address



Of Our Spiritual Strivings



Of Mr. Booker T. Washington



Founder's Day Address at Tuskegee, 1931



, Cowards from the Colleges



, Social Equality



, Brown v. Board of Education: The Effects of Segregation



The Shadow of the Plantation



Tore Up and a-Movin'



, An Analysis of Negro Patriotism



The Black Migration



12 Million Black Voices




"A Heap of Signifying": Vernacular Culture


, (What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue



African American Folk Song, Run, Nigger, Run


African American Folk Song, Jack the Rabbit! Jack the Bear!


, The Devil's Son-In-Law



African American Spiritual, Many Thousands Gone


Why Mr. Dog Runs Brer Rabbit



Brer Rabbit and the Goobers



De Sweet Pertater Man



Sweet-the-Monkey



Hip Language




"The City Within a City": Harlem, U. S. A.


Federal Writers' Project, Portrait of Harlem


The New Negro



Blacks in the Labor Movement



Race Catechism



Africa for the Africans



Speech Delivered at Liberty Hall, August 1921



The Road to Negro Liberation



Marxism and the American Negro



Marxism and the Woman Question



Negro Americans, What Now?



Harlem Runs Wild



The Harlem Riot of 1943



The Negro and the Second World War



Harlem Is Nowhere



Bibliography