Inventing the new Negro: narrative, culture, and ethnography

1. Ethnography and the New Negro Imagination

2. Men of Science in the Post-Slavery Era

3. Raising the Veil: Racial Divides and Ethnographic Crossings in The Souls of Black Folk

4. Striking Out into the Interior: Travel, Imperialism, and Ethnographic Perspectives in The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

5. Living Culture in Sterling Brown's Southern Road

6. Woman Dancing Culture: Katherine Dunham's Dance/Anthropology

7. Narrative Dissonance: Conflict and Contradiction in Hurston's Caribbean Ethnography

8. Their Eyes Were Watching God and the Vodou Intertext

9. Afterword

Notes

Index

Acknowledgments