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Author Griggs, Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert), 1872-1933, author.

Title Imperium in Imperio
Published Bielefeld : West Virginia University Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (261 p.)
Series Regenerations
Regenerations.
Contents Introduction -- Chronology: Life and times of Sutton E. Griggs -- Textual note -- Imperium in Imperio -- Annotations -- Emendations -- Appendix A: The lynching of Postmaster Frazier B. Baker -- Appendix B: The story of my struggles (1914) by Sutton E. Griggs -- Appendix C: Griggs and the Richmond Planet -- Appendix D: Signed first edition -- Appendix E: The Virginian pilot -- Appendix F: Promotional materials and contemporary review of Imperium in imperio -- Appendix G: Speeches
Summary "A new critical edition of Sutton Griggs's turn-of-the-twentieth-century novel, which continues to shed light on understandings of Black politics. Sutton E. Griggs's first novel, originally published in 1899, paints a searing picture of the violent enforcement of disfranchisement and Jim Crow racial segregation. Based on events of the time, including US imperial policies, revolutionary movements, and racial protests, Imperium in Imperio introduces the fictional Belton Piedmont and Bernard Belgrave as "future leaders of their race" and uses these characters to make sense of the violence that marked the dawn of the twentieth century. Taking on contemporary battles over separatism and integration, Griggs's novel continues to play a crucial role in understandings of Black politics.Edited and introduced by Tess Chakkalakal and Kenneth W. Warren, this new critical edition offers not only an incisive biographical and historical introduction to the novel and its author but also a wealth of references that make the events and characters of Griggs's Imperium in Imperio, and its aftermath, accessible to readers today"-- Provided by publisher
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Racially mixed people -- Fiction
African American men -- Fiction
Black nationalism -- Fiction
Radicals -- Fiction
Racism -- Fiction
HISTORY / United States / 19th Century.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American & Black.
African American men
Black nationalism
Racially mixed people
Racism
Radicals
SUBJECT Texas -- Fiction
Subject Texas
Genre/Form Fiction
Form Electronic book
Author Chakkalakal, Tess, editor
Warren, Kenneth W., editor
LC no. 2022016003
ISBN 1952271592
9781952271595