Making Black History : The Color Line, Culture, and Race in the Age of Jim Crow

In the Jim Crow era, along with black churches, schools, and newspapers, African Americans also had their own history. __Making Black History__ focuses on the engine behind the early black history movement, Carter G. Woodson and his Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH). Author Jeffrey Aaron Snyder shows how the study and celebration of black history became an increasingly important part of African American life over the course of the early to mid-twentieth century. It was the glue that held African Americans together as “a people,” a weapon to fight racism, and a roadmap to a brighter future. __Making Black History__ takes an expansive view of the historical enterprise, covering not just the production of black history but also its circulation, reception, and performance. Woodson, the only professional historian whose parents had been born into slavery, attracted a strong network of devoted members to the ASNLH, including professional and lay historians, teachers, students, “race” leaders, journalists, and artists. They all grappled with a set of interrelated questions: Who and what is “Negro”? What is the relationship of black history to American history? And what are the purposes of history? Tracking the different answers to these questions, Snyder recovers a rich public discourse about black history that took shape in journals, monographs, and textbooks and sprang to life in the pages of the black press, the classrooms of black schools, and annual celebrations of Negro History Week. By lining up the Negro history movement’s trajectory with the wider arc of African American history, Snyder changes our understanding of such signal aspects of twentieth-century black life as segregated schools, the Harlem Renaissance, and the emerging modern civil rights movement. MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title 4 Copyright 5 Dedication 6 CONTENTS 8 Acknowledgments 10 A Note on Racial Terminology 12 Introduction 16 PART 1: THE COLOR LINE, 1915–1926 30 CHAPTER ONE “The Cause” 34 CHAPTER TWO “Reverse the Stage” 61 PART 2: CULTURE, 1922–1941 84 CHAPTER THREE Heritage: Anthologies and the Negro Renaissance 88 CHAPTER FOUR The New Negro Goes to School 109 PART 3: RACE, 1942–1956 134 CHAPTER FIVE “A Revision of the Concept of Race and of Racism” 138 CHAPTER SIX “Look to the Roots”: History Lessons for the Present 162 Epilogue 180 Notes 186 Bibliography 224 Index 248 A 248 B 249 C 249 D 250 E 251 F 251 G 251 H 251 I 252 J 252 K 253 L 253 M 253 N 254 O 255 P 255 R 255 S 256 T 257 U 257 V 257 W 257 Y 258 Z 258 "Making Black History focuses on the engine behind the early black history movement in the Jim Crow era, Carter G. Woodson and his Association for the Study of Negro Life and History"-- Provided by publisher