Anthologies of African American Writing

New Negro Renaissance: An Anthology

"The New Negro Renaissance: An Anthology" . Comp. Arthur P. Davis and Michael W. Peplow. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1975. xxxi+538 pp.

Protest Literature. Fifty Years / James Weldon Johnson ; The Edict / Roscoe C. Jamison ; To A Caged Canary In A Negro Restaurant / Leslie Pinckney Hill ; Self-Determination / Leslie Pinckney Hill ; Daybreak / George M. McClellan ; I See And Am Satisfied / Kelly Miller ; America / Claude McKay ; Close Ranks / W.E.B. Dubois ; The Lynching Industry: 1919 / The Crisis Staff ; Brothers / Joshua Henry Jones, Jr. ; The Bomb Thrower / Will Sexton ; Incident / Countee Cullen ; Pilate In Modern / George Leonard Allen ; America / George Leonard Allen ; Prejudice / Georgia Douglas Johnson ; Black Woman / Georgia Douglas Johnson ; Old Lem / Sterling A. Brown ; Blood-Burning Moon / Jean Toomer ; America's Greatest Institution: The Klu Klux Klan / "A Kluxer" A Festival In Christendom / Walter Everette Hawkins ; Snapshots Of The Cotton South / Frank Marshall Davis ; White Things / Anne Spencer ; Saint Peter Relates And Incident Of The Resurrection Day / James Weldon Johnson ; For A Lady I Know / Countee Cullen ; Yet I Do Marvel / Countee Cullen ; Old Jim Crow / Anonymous ; The Pathology Of Race Prejudice / E. Franklin Frasier ; Our Greatest Gift To America / George S. Schuyler -- The Genteel School: "We Are Like You. ". After The Winter / Claude McKay ; Flower Of Love / Claude McKay ; I Want To Die While You Love Me / Georgia Douglas Johnson ; The Heart Of A Woman / Georgia Douglas Johnson ; Noblesse Oblige / Jessie Fauset ; La Vie C'est La Vie Rondeau / Jessie Fauset ; The Wife-Woman / Anne Spencer ; At The Carnival / Anne Spencer ; Before The Feast Of Shushan / Anne Spencer ; Your Hands / Angelina Grimke ; Grass Fingers / Angelina Grimke ; The Bright Chimeric Best / Countee Cullen ; To John Keats, Poet, At Springtime / Countee Cullen ; The Watchers / William Stanley Braithwaite ; Sandy Star / William Stanley Braithwaite ; There Is Confusion / Jessie Fauset ; Mortgaged / Willis Richardson ; Rhobert / Jean Toomer ; Robert Whitmore / Frank Marshall Davis ; Arthur Ridgewood, M.D. / Frank Marshall Davis ; Giles Johnson, Ph. D. / Frank Marshall Davis ; The Autobiography Of An Ex-Coloured Man / James Weldon Johnson ; Passing / Nella Larsen -- Nigger Heaven: Variations On A Theme. Why I Like Harlem / Ira De A. Reid ; Harlem Night Club / Langston Hughes ; Jazzonia / Langston Hughes ; Negro Dancers / Langston Hughes ; To Midnight Nan At Leroy's Place / Helene Johnson ; Poem / Helene Johnson ; Sonnet To A Negro In Harlem / Countee Cullen ; She Of The Dancing Feet Sings / Countee Cullen ; Harlem Wine / Claude McKay ; Home To Harlem / Ira De A. Reid ; Mrs. Bailey Pays The Rent / Ira De A. Reid ; The Big Sea / Langston Hughes ; Slave On The Block / Langston Hughes ; The Walls Of Jericho / Rudolph Fisher ; Van Vechten's Nigger Heaven / W.E.B. Dubois ; Minstrel Men / Langston Hughes ; The Weary Blues / Langston Hughes ; Young Prostitute / Langston Hughes ; Harlem Shadows / Claude McKay ; The Harlem Dancer / Claude McKay ; Tired / Fenton Johnson -- The African Heritage. Danse Africaine / Langston Hughes ; Nude Young Dancer / Langston Hughes ; Enchantment / Lewis Alexander ; Sahdji / Richard Bruce (Nugent) ; The Return / Arna Bontemps ; Bottled / Helene Johnson ; The Story Of Africa / W.E.B. Dubois ; Morning Light Of The Dew-Drier / Effie Lee Newsome ; Conversion / Effie Lee Newsome ; Africa / June Toomer ; Wake Up Ethiopia / Claude McKay ; No One Knows / Marcus Garvey ; Africa / Lewis Alexander ; Afro-American / Langston Hughes ; Fragment / Langston Hughes ; Heritage / Countee Cullen ; Bambaata--Leader Of The Zulu Revolt / J.A. Rogers ; The Legacy Of The Ancestral Arts / Alain Locke ; Slaves Today / George S. Schuyler ; American Negro Folk Literature / Arthur Fauset ; Slim In Hell / Sterling A. Brown ; The Tragedy Of Pete / Joseph S. Cotter, Sr. ; The Eatonville Anthology / Zora Neale Hurston ; Mules And Men / Zora Neale Hurston ; Play A Blues For Louise / Waring Cuney ; Hard Time Blues / Waring Cuney ; Song For A Banjo Dance / Langston Hughes ; Young Gal's Blues / Langston Hughes ; Don't You Want To Be Free? / Langston Hughes ; The Creation: A Negro Hermon / James Weldon Johnson ; The Autobiography Of An E-Coloured Man / James Weldon Johnson ; The Black Man Talks Of Reaping / Arna Bontemps ; Harvest Song / Jean Toomer ; Georgia Dust / Jean Toomer ; Plumes: A Folk Tragedy / Georgia Douglas Johnson ; Strange Legacies / Sterling A. Brown ; Oriflamme / Jessie Fauset ; Nat Turner / Randolph Edmonds ; Black Thunder / Arna Bontemps ; The Steel Drivin' Man / Leon R. Harris ; No Images / Waring Cuney ; Black Madonna / Albert Rice ; To A Nobly-Gifted Singer / Leslie Pinckney Hill ; A Song Of Praise / Countee Cullen ; Ebon Maid And Girl Of Mine / Lucian B. Watkins ; The Negro Woman / Andrea Razafkeriefo ; To My Grandmother / Mae Smith Johnson ; The Black Finger / Angelina Grimke ; To The Black Beloved / Langston Hughes ; Mother To Son ; Langston Hughes ; "Be As Proud Of Your Race" / Marcus Garvey ; O Black And Unknown Bards / James Weldon Johnson ; The Black Mother / W.E.B Dubois ; The Song Of The Smoke / W.E.B. Dubois ; Strong Men / Sterling A. Brown ; These Are My People / Fenton Johnson ; Credo / Walter E. Hawkins ; The Negro Church / Andrea Razafkeriefo ; Courier / Georgia Douglas Johnson ; To My Son / Georgia Douglas Johnson ; Facts / Raymond G. Dandridge ; Time To Die / Raymond G. Dandridge ; Baptism / Claude McKay ; If We Must Die / Claude McKay ; For My People / Margaret Walker ; Returning Soldiers / W.E.B. Dubois ; The New Negro / Alain Locke-- The Stirrings Of Black Nationalism. The Crisis In Negro Leadership / Harry H. Jones ; Race Pride / W.E.B Dubois ; First Statement Of Purpose / The NAACP ; What Has The Association Done? / The NAACP ; Cooperation And Opportunity / Eugene Kinckle Jones ; The Marching Song / Philip Randolph ; The Truth About The Brotherhood Of Sleeping Car Porters / Philip Randolph ; Some Reasons Why Negroes Should Vote The Socialist Ticket / Philip Randolph ; You Cannot Kill The Working Class / Angelo Herndon ; Manifesto To The League Of Nations / W.E.B. Dubois ; To Your Tents, Oh Israel? / W.E.B. Dubois ; Segregation / W.E.B. Dubois ; What We Believe / Marcus Garvey ; Declaration Of Rights Of The Negro Peoples Of The World / Marcus Garvey ; What Chance Freedom / Oscar Brown ; Registered With Allah / Arna Bontemps And Jack Conroy -- The Critical Debate. The Negro-Art Hokum / George S. Schuyler ; The Negro Artist And The Racial Mountain / Langston Hughes ; The Negro Genius / Benjamin Brawley ; The Negro In Art: How Shall He Be Portrayed? / The Crisis Symposium ; Criteria Of Negro Art / W.E.B. Dubois ; Infants Of The Spring / Wallace Thurman.

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• "After a general introduction, each of the nine sections is preceded by a cogent discussion of the theme to be exemplified. An appendix contains a fairly detailed chronology covering 1910 to 1940, bio-bibliographical notes on the fifty authors included, and a selective bibliography" (Kinnamon 1997: 467).

Kinnamon 1997: 467]

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