Anthologies of African American Writing

Voices from the Harlem Renaissance

"Voices from the Harlem Renaissance" . Ed. Nathan Irvin Huggins. New York: Oxford UP, 1976. 438 pp.

• Repr. 1995. 438 pp.

Introduction

"NEW NEGRO” RADICALISM
Editors of the Messenger / The Negro : A Menace to Radicalism [from “The Messenger”]
● A. Philip Randolph / A New Crowd—A New Negro
● W.A. Domingo / "If We Must Die"
● W.A. Domingo / Defense of Negro Rioters
● W.A. Domingo / The New Negro—What is He?
● W.A. Domingo / Africa for the Africans
● A. Philip Randolph / Garveyism
● Marcus A. Garvey / Africa for the Africans
● Marcus A. Garvey / The Future as I See It
● W.E.B. Dubois / Race Pride

HARLEM RENAISSANCE: THE URBAN SETTING
● Editors of Harlem / Harlem Directory Where to Go and What to Do When in Harlem [from “Harlem”]
● Alain Locke / The New Negro
● James Weldon Johnson / Excerpt [from "Black Manhattan”]
● James Weldon Johnson / My City
● Wallace Thurman / Editorial [from “Harlem”]
● Rudolph Fisher / The Caucasian Storms Harlem
● Claude McKay / Excerpt [from “A Long Way From Home"]
● Claude McKay / The Tropics in New York
● Claude McKay / Harlem shadows
● Eric Walrond / City Love
● Langston Hughes / Excerpt [from “The Big Sea”]
● Langston Hughes / Esthete in Harlem
● Langston Hughes / Railroad Avenue
● Richard Bruce / Smoke, Lilies, and Jade
● Rudolph Fisher / Blades of Steel
● Countee Cullen / Harlem wine
● Nancy Cunard / Harlem Reviewed
● Claude McKay / A Negro Extravaganza

AFRO-AMERICAN IDENTITY—WHO AM I?
● Alain Locke / The Legacy of the Ancestral Arts
● Countee Cullen / Heritage
● Countee Cullen / Uncle Jim
● Countee Cullen / Tableau
● Countee Cullen / Saturday's Child
● Langston Hughes / Afro-American Fragment
● Langston Hughes / Luani of the Jungles
● Langston Hughes / Danse africaine
● Langston Hughes / Negro
● Langston Hughes / Cross
● Langston Hughes / I Too Sing America
● Langston Hughes / The Negro Speaks of Rivers
● Claude McKay / Excerpt [from “Banjo"]
● Claude McKay / Africa
● Claude McKay / Mulatto
● Helene Johnson / Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem
● Helene Johnson / Poem
● Jean Toomer / Bona and Paul
● Gwendolyn Bennett / To a Dark Girl
● Gwendolyn Bennett / Wedding Day
● Sterling Brown / Odyssey of Big Boy
● Zora Neale Hurston / Sweat
● W.E.B. DuBois / African Diary
● W.E.B. DuBois / On Being Black

AFRO-AMERICAN PAST—HISTORY AND FOLK TRADITION
● Arthur A. Schomburg / The Negro Digs Up His Past
● Jean Toomer / Song of the Son
● James Weldon Johnson / Fifty Years (1863-1913)
● Zora Neale Hurston / Characteristics of Negro Expression
● Zora Neale Hurston / Shouting
● Zora Neale Hurston / The Sermon
● Zora Neale Hurston / Uncle Monday
● Alain Locke / Sterling Brown : The New Negro Folk-Poet

VISUAL ARTS: TO CELEBRATE BLACKNESS
● Aaron Douglas
● Sargent Johnson
● Richmond Barthé
● Augusta Savage
● Hale Woodruff
● William H. Johnson
● Archibald J. Motley
● Palmer Hayden

AFRO-AMERICAN ART: ART OR PROPAGANDA? HIGH OR LOW CULTURE
● James Weldon Johnson / Preface [to “The Book of American Negro Poetry”]
● James Weldon Johnson / O Black and Unknown Bards
● Langston Hughes / The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain
● Langston Hughes / Hurt
● George S. Schuyler / The Negro-Art Hokum
● Alain Locke / Art or Propaganda
● Jessie Redmond Fauset / Dead Fires
● Countee Cullen / To John Keats, Poet, at Springtime
● Countee Cullen / For a Poet
● Countee Cullen / Yet Do I Marvel
● Wallace Thurman / Excerpt [from “Infants of the Spring”]
● Fenton Johnson / The Banjo Player
● Tom Davin / Conversation with James P. Johnson
● Nathan Irvin Huggins / Interview with Eubie Blake

CHRISTIANITY: ALIEN GOSPEL OR SOURCE OF INSPIRATION?
● James Weldon Johnson / Go Down Death
● Zora Neale Hurston / Spirituals and Neo-Spirituals
● Countee Cullen / Black Magdalens
● Countee Cullen / Simon the Cyrenian Speaks
● Countee Cullen / Fruit of the Flower
● Countee Cullen / She of the Dancing Feet Sings
● Waring Cuney / Conception
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / The Suppliant
● Helene Johnson / A Missionary Brings a Young Native to America

ALIENATION, ANGER, RAGE
● James Weldon Johnson / Brothers
● Claude McKay / If We Must Die
● Claude McKay / The White House
● Claude McKay / The Lynching
● Claude McKay / America
● Arna Bontemps / A Black Man Talks of Reaping
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / Old Black Men
● Gwendolyn Bennett / Hatred
● Sterling A. Brown / Remembering Nat Turner
● Langston Hughes / Dream Variation
● Langston Hughes / Song for a Dark Girl
● Langston Hughes / Mother to Son
● Countee Cullen / Incident
● Countee Cullen / From the Dark Tower
● Helene Johnson / A Southern Road
● George S. Schuyler / Our Greatest Gift to America

REFLECTIONS ON THE RENAISSANCE AND ART FOR A NEW DAY
● Langston Hughes / [from “The Big Sea”]
● Claude McKay / Harlem Runs Wild
● W.E.B. DuBois / A Negro Nation Within the Nation
● James Weldon Johnson / Foreword [from “Challenge”]
● Dorothy West / Dear Reader [from “Challenge”]
● Carl Van Vechten / Comments [from “Challenge”]
● Dorothy West / Dear Reader [from “Challenge”]
● Dorothy West / Editorial [from “The New Challenge”]
● Richard Wright / Blueprint for Negro Writing
● Claude McKay / For a Negro Magazine
● Alain Locke / Spiritual Truancy
● Arna Bontemps / Barrel Staves
● Helene Johnson / Widow with a Moral Obligation
● Langston Hughes / Poem
● Langston Hughes / Always the Same
● Langston Hughes / Goodbye, Christ
● Richard Wright / Long Black Song

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• "Although he includes two pieces by Richard Wright, in his introduction Huggins delimits the Renaissance as 'roughly between World War I and the Great Depression,' a decade rather than Peplow and Davis's [see The New Negro Renaissance: An Anthology (1975)] three decades" (Kinnamon 1997: 467).

original ed.: Kinnamon 1997: 467]

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