Sterling A. Brown and the Afro-modern moment.

Sterling Allen Brown asserted that African Americans were just as capable of being a metaphysical race by bringing attention to their complexity and change. He sought to formulate an Afro-modernism by way of poetic vocabulary and through formulation of a theory of folk culture which emphasized a more dynamic range of being. Brown took it upon himself to examine modern notions concerning subjectivity and process and applied it to a range of black idiomatic expressions and rituals that articulate ...