| Abstract |
Afro-American historian Carter G. Woodson organized the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History as his enterprise. Journal of Negro History and Negro History Bulletin were its two publications for different readers. Journal of Negro History offered a place for the black professional historians to publish their academic works in a deeply segregated society. Negro History Bulletin was for the popular purpose. Its non-professional character offered an unlimited creative dialogue for Woodson to present the Afro-Americans played in American History and to criticize the American society as American citizen through the articles published in Negro History Bulletin. Woodson established an African-centered historiography and went upstream to ancient African culture for Negro history. He used abundant historical materials and scientific analysis to reconstruct self-objective Negro subjectivity, to declare the contributions self-proud Negro made to American society, to deconstruct the Negro stereotype, and to prove that Negroes deserved treating equally as American citizens inseparable. It also existed contradictions. But as a macrocosm, it was ‘our’ African History and ‘our’ American History interactively in all aspects of Negro History Bulletin. To Woodson, the United States was the final place to settle down for the Negro, and Negro history was the means to pursuit their life in the United States. |
