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Race, Ralph Ellison and American Cold War Intellectual CultureAn Integrative Vernacular

Race, Ralph Ellison and American Cold War Intellectual Culture: An Integrative Vernacular [Published in the American Scholar in 1978, Ellison’s “The Little Man at Chehaw Station” is a longer version of a commencement address he gave to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia in 1975, titled “The Little Man Behind the Stove.” Given the publication date of Ellison’s essay it would make sense that terms, concepts and, especially in the little man himself, aesthetic figurations related to integration would feature prominently. With the destruction of Jim Crow the civil rights movement had ended centuries of segregation and pushed the USA into an age of social integration. It is important to think about the integrative message of “The Little Man at Chehaw Station” not only as a product of Brown vs. Board of Education but also of more immediate events. Ellison’s remarks come a little more than a decade after Lyndon B. Johnson’s 1964 Civil Rights Act and Executive Order 11246 in 1965, as well as Swann vs. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education in 1971. Abolishing the legal grounds for separate but equal institutions however led to what Orlando Patterson has called the “paradoxes of integration” (15). While the federal government continued to pass legislation dismantling the legal legacy of Jim Crow, Patterson discovers that the same post-Brown vs. Board decades saw an increase in racial chauvinism (65).] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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Palgrave Macmillan UK
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
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978-1-349-34043-9
Pages
116 –143
DOI
10.1057/9781137313843_5
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[Published in the American Scholar in 1978, Ellison’s “The Little Man at Chehaw Station” is a longer version of a commencement address he gave to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia in 1975, titled “The Little Man Behind the Stove.” Given the publication date of Ellison’s essay it would make sense that terms, concepts and, especially in the little man himself, aesthetic figurations related to integration would feature prominently. With the destruction of Jim Crow the civil rights movement had ended centuries of segregation and pushed the USA into an age of social integration. It is important to think about the integrative message of “The Little Man at Chehaw Station” not only as a product of Brown vs. Board of Education but also of more immediate events. Ellison’s remarks come a little more than a decade after Lyndon B. Johnson’s 1964 Civil Rights Act and Executive Order 11246 in 1965, as well as Swann vs. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education in 1971. Abolishing the legal grounds for separate but equal institutions however led to what Orlando Patterson has called the “paradoxes of integration” (15). While the federal government continued to pass legislation dismantling the legal legacy of Jim Crow, Patterson discovers that the same post-Brown vs. Board decades saw an increase in racial chauvinism (65).]

Published: Oct 26, 2015

Keywords: Black Nationalism; Private Note; Outbound Train; Italian Literature; Coal Pile

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