Download or read book Artistic Ambassadors and African American Writing at the Nation's Edge, 1893-1940 written by Brian Russell Roberts and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw the first generation of formal participation by African Americans in the US's international diplomatic program. Given the heightened attentiveness to language-use that is common to the fields of diplomacy and literary writing, it should come as no surprise that several black diplomats tried their hand at literature while several black writers entered into the field of diplomacy.