Astrid Haas,
Universität Bielefeld
“In the preface to his seminal anthology The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922), the first collection of black U.S. American verse to appear with a major United States publishing house, James Weldon Johnson employs the term ‘Aframerican’ in the widest possible sense, as a designator for people of African descent from the entire American hemisphere rather than as an exclusive label for blacks from the United States…”