Eugenics in American Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance
by
Daylanne K. English
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Challenging conventional constructions of the Harlem Renaissance and American modernism, Daylanne English links writers from both movements to debates about eugenics in the Progressive Era. She argues that, in the 1920s, the form and content of writings by figures as disparate as W. E. B. Du Bois,...