02843oam 22006014a 450 991097014830332120251116213657.01-61376-485-5(CKB)4330000000525620(OCoLC)1012281652(MdBmJHUP)muse60425(MiAaPQ)EBC5599565(Au-PeEL)EBL5599565(CaPaEBR)ebr11637851(OCoLC)1076801541(EXLCZ)99433000000052562020160913d2016 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMeasuring the Harlem RenaissanceThe U.S. Census, African American Identity, and Literary Form /Michael Soto1st ed.Amherst :University of Massachusetts Press,[2016]Baltimore, Md. :Project MUSE, 2017©[2016]1 online resource (pages cm)1-62534-249-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: The true measure of a renaissance -- Measure for measure for measure: three eras in American racial census taking -- Harlem society: practicing theory -- Harlem diversity: nations within a nation -- Harlem modernity: inventing the new Negro -- Harlem geography: race and the spatial imagination -- Epilogue: census geography and the burdens of representation -- Appendix: race/color categories employed by the U.S. Census, 1790/2010.In this provocative study, Michael Soto examines African American cultural forms through the lens of census history to tell the story of how U.S.officialdom--in particular the Census Bureau--placed persons of African descent within a shifting taxonomy of racial difference, and how African American writers and intellectuals described a far more.African Americans in literatureModernism (Literature)United StatesHarlem RenaissanceAmerican literature20th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismHarlem (New York, N.Y.)Intellectual life20th centuryUnited StatesCensusHistoryElectronic books. African Americans in literature.Modernism (Literature)Harlem Renaissance.American literatureHistory and criticism.American literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.810.9/896073Soto Michael1970-1651512MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910970148303321Measuring the Harlem Renaissance4459063UNINA