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The New Negro: An Interpretation by Alain Locke
Edited by the first African American Rhodes Scholar, this landmark anthology of fiction, poetry, essays, drama, music, and illustration is widely regarded as the key text of the Harlem Renaissance. Exploring social, political, and artistic change, the works include Locke's titular tract, as well as contributions by Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, James Weldon Johnson, and other luminaries. Reprint of the Albert and Charles Boni, New York, 1925 edition.
Table of Contents for The New Negro: An Interpretation
Foreword Acknowledgments
Part I: The Negro Renaissance The New Negro Alain Locke Negro Art and America Albert C. Barnes The Negro in American Literature William Stanley Braithwaite Negro Youth Speaks Alain Locke
Fiction: The City of Refuge Rudolph Fisher Vestiges Rudolph Fisher Fog John Matheus Carma, from Cane Jean Toomer Fern, from Cane Jean Toomer Spunk Zora Neale Hurston Sahdji Bruce Nugent The Palm Porch Eric Walrond
Poetry: Poems Countee Cullen Poems Claude McKay Poems Jean Toomer The Creation James Weldon Johnson Poems Langston Hughes Poems Georgia Douglas Johnson Lady, Lady Anne Spencer The Black Finger Angelina Grimke Enchantment Lewis Alexander
Drama: The Drama of Negro Life Montgomery Gregory The Gift of Laughter Jessie Fauset Compromise (A Folk Play) Willis Richardson
Music: The Negro Spirituals Alain Locke Negro Dancers Claude McKay Jazz at Home J. A. Rogers Jazzonia Langston Hughes Nude Young Dancer Langston Hughes
The Negro Digs Up His Past Arthur A. Schomburg American Negro Folk Literature Arthur Huff Fauset T’appin Told by Cugo Lewis B’rer Rabbit Fools Buzzard Heritage Countee Cullen The Legacy of the Ancestral Arts Alain Locke
Part II: The New Negro in a New World The Negro Pioneers Paul U. Kellogg The New Frontage on American Life Charles S. Johnson
The New Scene: Harlem: The Culture Capital James Weldon Johnson Howard: The National Negro University Kelly Miller Hampton-Tuskegee: Missioners of the Masses Robert R. Moton Durham: Capital of the Black Middle Class E. Fanklin Frazier Gift of the Black Tropics W. A. Domingo
The Negro and the American Tradition: The Negro’s Americanism Melville J. Herskovits The Paradox of Color Walter White The Task of Negro Womanhood Elise Johnson McDougald
Worlds of Color: The Negro Mind Reaches Out W. E. B. Du Bois
Bibliography Who’s Who of the Contributors A Select List of Negro-Americana and Africana The Negro in Literature Negro Drama Negro Music: A Bibliography A Selected List of Modern Music, Influenced by American Negro Themes or Idioms Negro Folk Lore The Negro Race Problems |
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