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IntroductionThe Postwar EthosPortrait of Middle AmericaThe Search for AlternativesThe Harlem RenaissanceConclusionReading List
Introduction
The Postwar Ethos
Portrait of Middle America
The Search for Alternatives
The Harlem Renaissance
Conclusion
Biographies
Reading List

Seminar Readings

Alain Locke, excerpt from "The New Negro," in The New Negro, ed. Alain Locke (New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1925; New York: Atheneum, 1968), 3–8, 15–16. by Alain Locke

Robert S. Lynd and Helen Merrell Lynd, excerpt from ch.1, "Nature of the Investigation," in Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1929), 5–6.

Robert S. Lynd and Helen Merrell Lynd, excerpt from ch. 28,"Things Making and Unmaking Group Solidarity," in Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1929), 486–94.

John Crowe Ransom, excerpt from "Reconstructed but Unregenerate," in I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition, by Twelve Southerners (1930; repr., Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1977), 3–4 and 12–14.

Immigration Act of 1924 (excerpt), U.S. Statutes at Large 43, pt.1 (1923–25): 153–69.

Further Recommended Reading

Douglas, Ann. Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s . New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995.

Fox, Richard Wightman, and James T. Kloppenberg, eds. A Companion to American Thought. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1995.

Fox, Richard Wightman, and T. J. Jackson Lears, eds. The Culture of Consumption: Critical Essays in American History, 1880–1980. New York: Pantheon, 1983.

Hollinger, David A., and Charles Capper, eds. The American Intellectual Tradition: A Sourcebook. 4th ed. Vol. 2, 1865 to the Present. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Lears, T. J. Jackson. Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America. New York: Basic Books, 1994.

Lewis, David Levering. When Harlem Was in Vogue. New York: Knopf, 1981; Penguin, 1997.

Marchand, Roland. Advertising the American Dream: Making Way for Modernity, 1920–1940. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985

Rogin, Michael Paul. Blackface, White Noise: Jewish Immigrants in the Hollywood Melting Pot. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

Rosenberg, Rosalind. Beyond Separate Spheres: The Intellectual Roots of Modern Feminism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982.