The period between 1880 and 1918, at the end of which Jim Crow was firmly established and the Great Migration of African Americans was well under way, was not t

The period between 1880 and 1918, at the end of which Jim Crow was firmly established and the Great Migration of African Americans was well under way, was not t

We all can name some of the Africanist aesthetic-structures that fuel African American and American art ... Syncopation, Improvisation, Call and Response, Cool,

Ain t Got No Home: America's Great Migrations and the Making of an Interracial Left"

A major new history of the literary traditions, oral and print, of African-descended peoples in the United States.