The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader

by Lewis, David (Author)

• ISBN13: 9780140170368
• ISBN10: 0140170367
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-06-01
• Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)

Summary

Gathering a representative sampling of the New Negro Movement's most important figures, and providing substantial introductory essays, headnotes, and brief biographical notes, Lewis' volume-organized chronologically-includes the poetry and prose of Sterling Brown, Countee Cullen, W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson, and others.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xiii
Chronology	xliii
Part I. Essays and Memoirs
Returning Soldiers	3	(3)
W. E. B. Du Bois
The Migration of the Talented Tenth	6	(4)
Carter G. Woodson
Gift of the Black Tropics	10	(7)
W. A. Domingo
Africa for the Africans	17	(9)
Marcus Garvey
Liberty Hall Emancipation Day Speech	26	(3)
On Marcus Garvey	29	(5)
Mary White Ovington
Black Manhattan	34	(12)
James Weldon Johnson
The New Negro	46	(6)
Alain Locke
Jazz at Home	52	(6)
Joel A. Rogers
Reflections on O'Neill's Plays	58	(3)
Paul Robeson
The Negro Digs Up His Past	61	(7)
Arthur A. Schomburg
The Task of Negro Womanhood	68	(23)
Elise Johnson McDougald
from The Big Sea
Langston Hughes
When the Negro Was in Vogue	77	(4)
Harlem Literati	81	(5)
Parties	86	(5)
The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain	91	(5)
The Negro-Art Hokum	96	(4)
George S. Schuyler
Criteria of Negro Art	100	(6)
W. E. B. Du Bois
Critiques of Carl Van Vechten's Nigger Heaven	106	(4)
Du Bois
J. W. Johnson
The Caucasian Storms Harlem	110	(8)
Rudolph Fisher
Aaron Douglas Chats about the Harlem Renaissance	118	(10)
Aaron Douglas
Negro Art and America	128	(6)
Albert C. Barnes
The Negro Takes His Place in American Art	134	(4)
Alain Locke
The Negro Artist and Modern Art	138	(4)
Romare Bearden
from Dust Tracks on a Road	142	(31)
Zora Neale Hurston
from A Long Way from Home
Claude McKay
The Harlem Intelligentsia	157	(4)
The New Negro in Paris	161	(12)
La Bourgeoisie Noire	173	(9)
E. Franklin Frazier
With Langston Hughes in the USSR	182	(8)
Louise Thompson Patterson
Harlem Runs Wild	190	(4)
Claude Mckay
Blueprint for Negro Writing	194	(12)
Richard Wright
The Negro Renaissance and Its Significance	206	(15)
Charles S. Johnson
Part II. Poetry
Song	221	(2)
Gwendolyn Bennett
Hatred	223	(1)
The Day-Breakers	224	(1)
Arna Bontemps
Golgotha Is a Mountain	224	(3)
Southern Road	227	(2)
Sterling Brown
Odyssey of Big Boy	229	(2)
Frankie and Johnny	231	(1)
Ma Rainey	232	(2)
Long Gone	234	(1)
Georgie Grimes	235	(1)
Remembering Nat Turner	236	(2)
The Young Voice Cries	238	(3)
Mae Cowdery
The Wayside Well	241	(1)
Joseph S. Cotter
For a Lady I Know	242	(1)
Countee Cullen
Incident	243	(1)
Harlem Wine	243	(1)
Yet Do I Marvel	244	(1)
Heritage	244	(3)
From the Dark Tower	247	(1)
To a Brown Boy	248	(1)
Tableau	248	(1)
Saturday's Child	249	(1)
Two Poets	250	(1)
To France	250	(1)
Nothing Endures	250	(1)
Requiescam	251	(1)
The Death Bed	252	(2)
Waring Cuney
La Vie C'est la Vie	254	(1)
Jessie Redmon Fauset
Dead Fires	255	(2)
The Negro Speaks of Rivers	257	(1)
Langston Hughes
I, Too	258	(1)
America	258	(2)
The Weary Blues	260	(1)
Jazzonia	261	(1)
Mother to Son	261	(1)
Negro	262	(1)
Mulatto	263	(1)
Elevator Boy	263	(1)
Red Silk Stockings	264	(1)
Ruby Brown	264	(1)
Elderly Race Leaders	265	(1)
Dream Variation	266	(1)
Goodbye, Christ	266	(1)
Advertisement for the Waldorf-Astoria	267	(4)
Children of the Sun	271	(1)
Fenton Johnson
The Banjo Player	272	(1)
Let Me Not Lose My Dream	273	(1)
Georgia Douglas Johnson
Old Black Men	273	(1)
Black Woman	274	(1)
The Heart of a Woman	274	(1)
I Want to Die While You Love Me	275	(1)
My Race	276	(1)
Helene Johnson
A Southern Road	276	(1)
Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem	277	(1)
Poem	277	(2)
The White Witch	279	(2)
James Weldon Johnson
The Color Sergeant	281	(1)
O Black and Unknown Bards	282	(2)
Go Down Death	284	(2)
The Creation	286	(4)
If We Must Die	290	(1)
Claude McKay
Baptism	290	(1)
The White House	291	(1)
The Negro's Friend	291	(1)
On a Primitive Canoe	292	(1)
The Tropics in New York	292	(1)
When Dawn Comes to the City	293	(1)
The Desolate City	294	(2)
The Harlem Dancer	296	(1)
St. Isaac's Church, Petrograd	297	(1)
Barcelona	297	(2)
Lady, Lady	299	(2)
Anne Spencer
Song of the Son	301	(1)
Jean Toomer
Georgia Dusk	302	(1)
The Blue Meridian	303	(8)
Part III. Fiction
from The Emperor Jones	311	(7)
Eugene O'Neill
from Cane	318	(15)
Jean Toomer
Karintha	319	(1)
Fern	319	(4)
Bona and Paul	323	(10)
Birthright	333	(7)
T. S. Stribling
from There Is Confusion	340	(8)
Jessie Redmon Fauset
from Plum Bun	348	(3)
from The Fire in the Flint	351	(12)
Walter White
Wedding Day	363	(32)
Gwendolyn Bennett
from Home to Harlem
Claude McKay
Snowstorm in Pittsburgh	371	(8)
Spring in Harlem	379	(10)
from Banjo
Banjo's Ace of Spades	389	(6)
from Banana Bottom	395	(15)
from Quicksand	410	(50)
Nella Larsen
from Passing	460	(26)
from The Closing Door	486	(15)
Angelina Weld Grimke
The Typewriter	501	(10)
Dorothy West
from The Dark Princess	511	(26)
W. E. B. Du Bois
from The Walls of Jericho	537	(32)
Rudolph Fisher
from Tropic Death
Eric Walrond
The Wharf Rats	549	(9)
The Yellow One	558	(11)
Smoke, Lilies and Jade	569	(16)
Richard Bruce Nugent
Luani of the Jungles	585	(44)
Langston Hughes
from Not Without Laughter
Thursday Afternoon	592	(7)
from The Ways of White Folks
Father and Son	599	(20)
The Blues I'm Playing	619	(10)
Cordelia the Crude	629	(4)
Wallace Thurman
Harlem: A Forum of Negro Life	633	(3)
from The Blacker the Berry...	636	(13)
from Infants of the Spring	649	(6)
from Black No More	655	(12)
George Schuyler
from God Sends Sunday	667	(7)
Arna Bontemps
from Black Thunder	674	(6)
from One Way to Heaven	680	(15)
Countee Cullen
Drenched in Light	695	(8)
Zora Neale Hurston
Color Struck	703	(16)
Jonah's Gourd Vine	719	(10)
from Mule-Bone	729	(10)
Zora Neale Hurston
Langston Hughes
Biographical Notes	739	(29)
Acknowledgments	768