African American Travel Narratives from Abroad : Mobility and Cultural Work in the Age of Jim Crow.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Embodying Segregation: Ida B. Wells on the Antilynching Circuit -- 2. Southernizing Travel in the Black Atlantic: Booker T. Washington's The Man Farthest Down -- 3. "To Return and Tell the Tale of the Doing": Matthew Henson and the African American Explorer's Identity -- 4. Cultural Work, Disorderly Mobility, and the Mundane Realities of Travel: Jessie Redmon Fauset and the Crisis -- 5. Bodies of Knowledge: Cultural Authority and Black Female Mobility in Zora Neale Hurston's Tell My Horse -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author -- Back Cover.

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