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Dissertation Information for Bobby J. Donaldson

NAME:
- Bobby J. Donaldson

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- History

SCHOOL:
- Emory University (USA) (2002)

ADVISORS:
- Dan T. Carter

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- Leroy Davis Jr
- Rudolph P Byrd

MPACT Status: Fully Complete

Title: New negroes in a new South: Race, power, and ideology in Georgia, 1890--1925

Abstract: This dissertation examines the origins and development of an enterprising community of African-American writers, ministers, journalists, educators, and professionals who worked in Georgia between 1890 and 1925. These decades, fraught with racial violence and entrenched segregation, witnessed an awakening in African-American intellectual thought, institutional building, and entrepreneurial development. Although most historians and literary scholars equate the notion of a "New Negro" with the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, I explore the origins of an earlier New Negro consciousness in the South and argue that the turn of the twentieth century marked a veritable intellectual and cultural renaissance among southern African Americans, which both predated and directly influenced the Harlem Renaissance. "New Negroes in a New South" relies upon a wealth of primary documents, including untapped family papers, organizational records, newspapers, such as the recently discovered Georgia Baptist , literary works, sermons, personal narratives, and oral interviews. Taken together, these sources illuminate life beyond the "Veil" and permit us to examine more closely how African-American intellectuals and their constituencies negotiated the stark realities of the color line and envisioned their "place" in both the South and nation.

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