The Assimilationist Impulse in Four African American Narratives
Subtitle: Frederick Douglass, James Weldon Johnson, Richard Wright, and Leroi Jones
By: Gordon E. Thompson ; with a foreword by Robert B. Stepto
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lewiston
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780773415553
Subjects: Social conditions; African American men; Assimilation (Sociology); Race relations
Notes: NOTE, ISBN 9780773415553 is noted on the copyright page as "Hardcover" **This is not correct.**
Table of contents: label: Foreword by Robert B. Stepto
title: i; label: Acknowledgements
title: v; label: Introduction
title: 1; title: Chapter 1; label: Frederick Douglass and Assimilation in the 1845 Narrative
title: 19; title: Chapter 2; label: Figures of Acculturation in Douglass, Stowe, and Washington
title: 55; title: Chapter 3; label: The Chameleon of Uplift in James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man
title: 97; title: Chapter 4; label: Richard Wright and Reactionary Assimilation
title: 147; title: Chapter 5; label: “A Tradition You Ought to Feel Repressed By”: The Ex-Assimilation of LeRoiJones
title: 187; label: Bibliography
title: 223; label: Index
title: 229