The New Negro

by Locke, Alain

• ISBN13: 9780684838311
• ISBN10: 0684838311
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-03-01
• Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER

Summary

From the man known as the father of the Harlem Renaissance comes a powerful, provocative, and affecting anthology of writers who shaped the Harlem Renaissance movement and who help us to consider the evolution of the African American in society.

With stunning works by seminal black voices such as Zora Neale Hurston, Countee Cullen, and W.E.B. DuBois, Locke has constructed a vivid look at the new negro, the changing African American finding his place in the ever shifting sociocultural landscape that was 1920s America. With poetry, prose, and nonfiction essays, this collection is widely praised for its literary strength as well as its historical coverage of a monumental and fascinating time in the history of America.

Author Biography

Alain LeRoy Locke (1885-1954) was a writer and philosopher who helped champion the Harlem Renaissance and a generation of black writers. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Locke would go on to study at Harvard University where he earned a doctorate in philosophy. He was the first African American ever to achieve the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. He taught at Howard where he served as chair of the philosophy department.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xv
Part I: The Negro Renaissance
The New Negro	3	(16)
Alain Locke
Negro Art and America	19	(10)
Albert C. Barnes
The Negro in American Literature	29	(18)
William Stanley Braithwaite
Negro Youth Speaks	47	(184)
Alain Locke
Fiction:
The City of Refuge	57	(18)
Rudolph Fisher
Vestiges	75	(10)
Rudolph Fisher
Fog	85	(11)
John Matheus
Carma, from Cane	96	(3)
Jean Toomer
Fern, from Cane	99	(6)
Jean Toomer
Spunk	105	(8)
Zora Neale Hurston
Sahdji	113	(2)
Bruce Nugent
The Palm Porch	115	(14)
Eric Walrond
Poetry:
Poems	129	(4)
Countee Cullen
Poems	133	(3)
Claude McKay
Poems	136	(2)
Jean Toomer
The Creation	138	(3)
James Weldon Johnson
Poems	141	(4)
Langston Hughes
The Day-Breakers	145	(1)
Arna Bontemps
Poems	146	(2)
Georgia Johnson
Lady, Lady	148	(1)
Anne Spencer
The Black Finger	148	(1)
Angelina Grimke
Enchantment	149	(4)
Lewis Alexander
Drama:
The Drama of Negro Life	153	(8)
Montgomery Gregory
The Gift of Laughter	161	(7)
Jessie Fauset
Compromise (A Folk Play)	168	(31)
Willis Richardson
Music:
The Negro Spirituals	199	(15)
Alain Locke
Negro Dancers	214	(2)
Claude McKay
Jazz at Home	216	(9)
J. A. Rogers
Song	225	(1)
Gwendolyn B. Bennett
Jazzonia	226	(1)
Langston Hughes
Nude Young Dancer	227	(4)
Langston Hughes
The Negro Digs up His Past	231	(40)
Arthur A. Schomburg
American Negro Folk Literature	238	(7)
Arthur Huff Fauset
T'appin	245	(3)
Told by Cugo Lewis
B'rer Rabbit Fools Buzzard	248	(2)
Heritage	250	(4)
Countee Cullen
The Legacy of the Ancestral Arts	254	(17)
Alain Locke
Part II: The New Negro in a New World
The Negro Pioneers	271	(7)
Paul U. Kellogg
The New Frontage on American Life	278	(171)
Charles S. Johnson
The Road	300	(1)
Helene Johnson
The New Scene:
Harlem: the Culture Capital	301	(11)
James Weldon Johnson
Howard: The National Negro University	312	(11)
Kelly Miller
Hampton-Tuskegee: Missioners of the Masses	323	(10)
Robert R. Moton
Durham: Capital of the Black Middle Class	333	(8)
E. Franklin Frazier
Gift of the Black Tropics	341	(12)
W. A. Domingo
The Negro and the American Tradition
The Negro's Americanism	353	(8)
Melville J. Herskovits
The Paradox of Color	361	(8)
Walter White
The Task of Negro Womanhood	369	(16)
Elise Johnson McDougald
Worlds of Color:
The Negro Mind Reaches Out	385	(30)
W. E. B. DuBois
Bibliography
Who's Who of the Contributors	415	(6)
A Selected List of Negro Americana and Africana	421	(6)
The Negro in Literature	427	(5)
Negro Drama	432	(2)
Negro Music	434	(8)
Negro Folk Lore	442	(7)
The Negro Race Problems	449