The New Negro: A History in Documents, 1887–1937 | Martha H Patterson (Author) + Henry Louis Gates (Author) Paul Tobin "A gentle yet powerful lesson

"A gentle yet powerful lesson for people pleasers everywhere

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The New Negro: A History in Documents, 1887–1937 | Martha H Patterson (Author) + Henry Louis Gates (Author) Paul Tobin "A gentle yet powerful lessonAn authoritative anthology tracing the history of one of the most important concepts Black people drew on to challenge the brutal, totalizing system of Jim Crow racism This book brings together a wealth of readings on the metaphor of the "New Negro," charting how generations of thinkers debated its meaning and seized on its potency to stake out an astonishingly broad and sometimes contradictory range of ideological positions. It features dozens of