West of Harlem : African American writers and the borderlands /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Lutenski, Emily (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, [2015]
Series:	Culture America.
Subjects:	American literature > African American authors > History and criticism. American literature > 20th century > History and criticism. African Americans in literature. Race relations in literature. West (U.S.) > In literature. Southwestern States > In literature.

Table of Contents:

Ntroduction: going to the territory
One who stayed. Home on the range: domesticity and a black woman's West
Those who went away. The two LAs: Los Angeles, Louisiana, and geographies of race
Revolt from the provinces: black politics of respectability and black sexual politics
Technicolor places: race and revolution in transnational America
One who arrived. Mapping the new American race: from New York to New Mexico-and beyond
Coda. The borderlands of blackness: the formation of a multiethnic American imagination.