New Negro: Readings on Race, Representation, and African American Culture, 1892-1938
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New Negro: Readings on Race, Representation, and African American Culture, 1892-1938
This edition
"The New Negro: Readings on Race, Representation, and African American Culture, 1892-1938" . Ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Gene Andrew Jarrett. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2007. xii+591 pp.
Table of contents
● Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Gene Andrew Jarrett / Introduction
Chapter I: THE NEW NEGRO
● W.E.C. Wright / The New Negro
● J.W.E. Bowen / An Appeal to the King
● Booker T. Washington / Afro-American Education
● N.B. Wood / Heroes and Martyrs
● Fannie Barrier Williams / The Club Movement among Colored Women of America
● Fannie Barrier Williams / The Intellectual Progress of the Colored Women of the United States since the Emancipation Proclamation
● John Henry Adams, Jr. / Rough Sketches: A Study of the Features of the New Negro Woman
● John Henry Adams, Jr. / Rough Sketches: The New Negro Man
● Ray Stannard Baker / An Ostracised Race in Ferment: The Conflict of Negro Parties and Negro Leaders Over Methods of Dealing with Their Own Problem
● William Pickens / The New Negro
● W.E.B. Du Bois / Returning Soldiers
● Marcus Garvey / The New Negro and the U.N.I.A.
● Anonymous / As to 'The New Negro'
● Geroid Robinson / The New Negro
● Hubert H. Harrison / The New Politics
● Hubert H. Harrison / Education and the Race
● Alain Locke / The New Negro
● Alain Locke / Sterling Brown: The New Negro Folk-Poet
● Gustavus Adolphus Stewart / The New Negro Hokum
● J.A. Rogers / Who Is the New Negro, and Why?
● Charlotte E. Taussig / The New Negro as Revealed in His Poetry
● E. Franklin Frazier / La Bourgeoisie Noire
● Claude McKay / The New Negro in Paris
● George S. Schuyler / The Rise of the Black Internationale
Chapter II: HOW SHOULD ART PORTRAY THE NEGRO?
● Anna Julia Cooper / One Phase of American Literature
● Paul Laurence Dunbar / [Negro in Literature]
● Charles W. Chesnutt / The Negro in Books
● William Stanley Braithwaite / The Negro in Literature
● The Crisis" Symposium / The Negro in Art: How Shall He Be Portrayed
● John Frederick Matheus / Some Aspects of the Negro Interpreted in Contemporary American and European Literature
● Eugene Clay / The Negro in Recent American Literature
Chapter III: THE RENAISSANCE
● W.E.B. Du Bois / The Younger Literary Movement
● Alain Locke / Negro Youth Speaks
● Carl van Vechten / Uncle Tom's Mansion
● H.L. Mencken / The Aframerican: New Style
● Carl van Doren / The Negro Renaissance
● Walter White / The Negro Renaissance
● Benjamin Brawley / The Negro Literary Renaissance
● Lloyd Morris / The Negro 'Renaissance'
● Martha Gruening / The Negro Renaissance
● Allison Davis / Our Negro 'Intellectuals'
● Claude McKay / For a Negro Magazine
Chapter IV: ART OR PROPAGANDA?
● Eric Walrond / Art and Propaganda
● Willis Richardson / Propaganda in the Theatre
● W.E.B. Du Bois / Criteria of Negro Art
● Alain Locke / Art or Propaganda?
● Alain Locke / Propaganda -- or Poetry?
● Richard Wright / Blueprint for Negro Writing
Chapter V: LITERATURE: HISTORY AND THEORY
● Katherine Tillman / Afro-American Women and Their Work
● Victoria Earle Matthews / The Value of Race Literature
● Charles W. Chesnutt / The Writing of a Novel
● W.E.B. Du Bois / The Negro in Literature and Art
● Alice Dunbar-Nelson / Negro Literature for Negro Pupils
● Robert E. Park / Negro Race Consciousness as Reflected in Race Literature
● Irene M. Gaines / Colored Authors and Their Contributions to the World's Literature
● Brenda Ray Moryck / A Point of View (An "Opportunity" Dinner Reaction)
● Arthur A. Schomburg / The Negro Digs Up His Past
● Fred Dearmond / A Note on the Sociology of Negro Literature
● Albert C. Barnes / Negro Art, Past and Present
● Thomas L.G. Oxley / Survey of Negro Literature, 1760-1926
● James Weldon Johnson / Race Prejudice and the Negro Artist
● Walter White / Negro Literature
● Zora Neale Hurston / Characteristics of Negro Expression
● Benjamin Brawley / The Negro Genius
Chapter VI: LITERATURE: THE LITERARY PROFESSION AND THE MARKETPLACE
● Hubert H. Harrison / On a Certain Condescension in White Publishers
● Willis Richardson / The Negro Audience
● George W. Jacobs (George S. Schuyler) / Negro Authors Must Eat
● James Weldon Johnson / The Dilemma of the Negro Author
● James Weldon Johnson / Negro Authors and White Publishers
● Sterling A. Brown / Our Literary Audience
● Claude McKay / A Negro Writer to His Critics
● Eugene C. Holmes / Problems Facing the Negro Writer Today
Chapter VII: LITERATURE: POETRY
● William Stanley Braithwaite / Some Contemporary Poets of the Negro Race
● Charles Eaton Burch / Dunbar's Poetry in Literary English
● John Edward Bruce / The Negro in Poetry
● Thomas Millard Henry / Old School of Negro 'Critics' Hard on Paul Laurence Dunbar
● Wallace Thurman / Negro Poets and Their Poetry
● Alain Locke / The Negro Poets of the United States
● T. Thomas Fortune / Mr. Garvey as a Poet
● James Weldon Johnson / Preface [From "The Book of American Negro Poetry"]
Chapter VIII: MUSIC: SPIRITUALS
● Paul Laurence Dunbar / Negro Music
● W.E.B. du Bois / The Sorrow Songs
● John W. Work / Negro Folk Song
● Alain Locke / The Negro Spirituals
● Laurence Buermeyer / The Negro Spirituals and American Art
● B.A. Botkin / Self-Portraiture and Social Criticism in Negro Folk-Song
● Zora Neale Hurston / Spirituals and Neo-Spirituals
Chapter IX: MUSIC: JAZZ
● Walter Kingsley / Whence Comes Jass?
● Grenville Vernon / That Mysterious 'Jazz'
● Anonymous / Jazzing Away Prejudice
● Anonymous / Where "The Etude" Stands on Jazz
● J.A. Rogers / Jazz at Home
● R.W.S. Mendl / Excerpt [From "The Appeal of Jazz”]
● Robert Goffin / Hot Jazz
● Louis Armstrong / Excerpt [From “Swing That Music ”]
Chapter X: THEATER
● Rollin Lynde Hartt / The Negro in Drama
● Paul Robeson / Reflections on O'Neill's Plays
● Montgomery Gregory / The Drama of Negro Life
● Jessie Fauset / The Gift of Laughter
● Theophilus Lewis / Same Old Blues
● Alain Locke / The Drama of Negro Life
● Rowena Woodham Jelliffe / The Negro in the Field of Drama
● Jules Bledsoe / Has the Negro a Place in the Theatre?
● Eulalie Spence / A Criticism of the Negro Drama as It Relates to the Negro Dramatist and Artist
● James Weldon Johnson / Excerpt [From "Black Manhattan”]
● Ralph Matthews / The Negro Theatre—A Dodo Bird
Chapter XI: THE FINE ARTS
● Alain Locke / A Note on African Art
● Alain Locke / The American Negro as Artist
● Alain Locke / African Art: Classic Style
● Jessie Fauset / Henry Ossawa Tanner
● Harry Alan Potamkin / African Plastic in Contemporary Art
● Romare Bearden / The Negro Artist and Modern Art
Chapter I: THE NEW NEGRO
● W.E.C. Wright / The New Negro
● J.W.E. Bowen / An Appeal to the King
● Booker T. Washington / Afro-American Education
● N.B. Wood / Heroes and Martyrs
● Fannie Barrier Williams / The Club Movement among Colored Women of America
● Fannie Barrier Williams / The Intellectual Progress of the Colored Women of the United States since the Emancipation Proclamation
● John Henry Adams, Jr. / Rough Sketches: A Study of the Features of the New Negro Woman
● John Henry Adams, Jr. / Rough Sketches: The New Negro Man
● Ray Stannard Baker / An Ostracised Race in Ferment: The Conflict of Negro Parties and Negro Leaders Over Methods of Dealing with Their Own Problem
● William Pickens / The New Negro
● W.E.B. Du Bois / Returning Soldiers
● Marcus Garvey / The New Negro and the U.N.I.A.
● Anonymous / As to 'The New Negro'
● Geroid Robinson / The New Negro
● Hubert H. Harrison / The New Politics
● Hubert H. Harrison / Education and the Race
● Alain Locke / The New Negro
● Alain Locke / Sterling Brown: The New Negro Folk-Poet
● Gustavus Adolphus Stewart / The New Negro Hokum
● J.A. Rogers / Who Is the New Negro, and Why?
● Charlotte E. Taussig / The New Negro as Revealed in His Poetry
● E. Franklin Frazier / La Bourgeoisie Noire
● Claude McKay / The New Negro in Paris
● George S. Schuyler / The Rise of the Black Internationale
Chapter II: HOW SHOULD ART PORTRAY THE NEGRO?
● Anna Julia Cooper / One Phase of American Literature
● Paul Laurence Dunbar / [Negro in Literature]
● Charles W. Chesnutt / The Negro in Books
● William Stanley Braithwaite / The Negro in Literature
● The Crisis" Symposium / The Negro in Art: How Shall He Be Portrayed
● John Frederick Matheus / Some Aspects of the Negro Interpreted in Contemporary American and European Literature
● Eugene Clay / The Negro in Recent American Literature
Chapter III: THE RENAISSANCE
● W.E.B. Du Bois / The Younger Literary Movement
● Alain Locke / Negro Youth Speaks
● Carl van Vechten / Uncle Tom's Mansion
● H.L. Mencken / The Aframerican: New Style
● Carl van Doren / The Negro Renaissance
● Walter White / The Negro Renaissance
● Benjamin Brawley / The Negro Literary Renaissance
● Lloyd Morris / The Negro 'Renaissance'
● Martha Gruening / The Negro Renaissance
● Allison Davis / Our Negro 'Intellectuals'
● Claude McKay / For a Negro Magazine
Chapter IV: ART OR PROPAGANDA?
● Eric Walrond / Art and Propaganda
● Willis Richardson / Propaganda in the Theatre
● W.E.B. Du Bois / Criteria of Negro Art
● Alain Locke / Art or Propaganda?
● Alain Locke / Propaganda -- or Poetry?
● Richard Wright / Blueprint for Negro Writing
Chapter V: LITERATURE: HISTORY AND THEORY
● Katherine Tillman / Afro-American Women and Their Work
● Victoria Earle Matthews / The Value of Race Literature
● Charles W. Chesnutt / The Writing of a Novel
● W.E.B. Du Bois / The Negro in Literature and Art
● Alice Dunbar-Nelson / Negro Literature for Negro Pupils
● Robert E. Park / Negro Race Consciousness as Reflected in Race Literature
● Irene M. Gaines / Colored Authors and Their Contributions to the World's Literature
● Brenda Ray Moryck / A Point of View (An "Opportunity" Dinner Reaction)
● Arthur A. Schomburg / The Negro Digs Up His Past
● Fred Dearmond / A Note on the Sociology of Negro Literature
● Albert C. Barnes / Negro Art, Past and Present
● Thomas L.G. Oxley / Survey of Negro Literature, 1760-1926
● James Weldon Johnson / Race Prejudice and the Negro Artist
● Walter White / Negro Literature
● Zora Neale Hurston / Characteristics of Negro Expression
● Benjamin Brawley / The Negro Genius
Chapter VI: LITERATURE: THE LITERARY PROFESSION AND THE MARKETPLACE
● Hubert H. Harrison / On a Certain Condescension in White Publishers
● Willis Richardson / The Negro Audience
● George W. Jacobs (George S. Schuyler) / Negro Authors Must Eat
● James Weldon Johnson / The Dilemma of the Negro Author
● James Weldon Johnson / Negro Authors and White Publishers
● Sterling A. Brown / Our Literary Audience
● Claude McKay / A Negro Writer to His Critics
● Eugene C. Holmes / Problems Facing the Negro Writer Today
Chapter VII: LITERATURE: POETRY
● William Stanley Braithwaite / Some Contemporary Poets of the Negro Race
● Charles Eaton Burch / Dunbar's Poetry in Literary English
● John Edward Bruce / The Negro in Poetry
● Thomas Millard Henry / Old School of Negro 'Critics' Hard on Paul Laurence Dunbar
● Wallace Thurman / Negro Poets and Their Poetry
● Alain Locke / The Negro Poets of the United States
● T. Thomas Fortune / Mr. Garvey as a Poet
● James Weldon Johnson / Preface [From "The Book of American Negro Poetry"]
Chapter VIII: MUSIC: SPIRITUALS
● Paul Laurence Dunbar / Negro Music
● W.E.B. du Bois / The Sorrow Songs
● John W. Work / Negro Folk Song
● Alain Locke / The Negro Spirituals
● Laurence Buermeyer / The Negro Spirituals and American Art
● B.A. Botkin / Self-Portraiture and Social Criticism in Negro Folk-Song
● Zora Neale Hurston / Spirituals and Neo-Spirituals
Chapter IX: MUSIC: JAZZ
● Walter Kingsley / Whence Comes Jass?
● Grenville Vernon / That Mysterious 'Jazz'
● Anonymous / Jazzing Away Prejudice
● Anonymous / Where "The Etude" Stands on Jazz
● J.A. Rogers / Jazz at Home
● R.W.S. Mendl / Excerpt [From "The Appeal of Jazz”]
● Robert Goffin / Hot Jazz
● Louis Armstrong / Excerpt [From “Swing That Music ”]
Chapter X: THEATER
● Rollin Lynde Hartt / The Negro in Drama
● Paul Robeson / Reflections on O'Neill's Plays
● Montgomery Gregory / The Drama of Negro Life
● Jessie Fauset / The Gift of Laughter
● Theophilus Lewis / Same Old Blues
● Alain Locke / The Drama of Negro Life
● Rowena Woodham Jelliffe / The Negro in the Field of Drama
● Jules Bledsoe / Has the Negro a Place in the Theatre?
● Eulalie Spence / A Criticism of the Negro Drama as It Relates to the Negro Dramatist and Artist
● James Weldon Johnson / Excerpt [From "Black Manhattan”]
● Ralph Matthews / The Negro Theatre—A Dodo Bird
Chapter XI: THE FINE ARTS
● Alain Locke / A Note on African Art
● Alain Locke / The American Negro as Artist
● Alain Locke / African Art: Classic Style
● Jessie Fauset / Henry Ossawa Tanner
● Harry Alan Potamkin / African Plastic in Contemporary Art
● Romare Bearden / The Negro Artist and Modern Art
About the anthology
• "When African American intellectuals announced the birth of the "New Negro" around the turn of the twentieth century, they were attempting through a bold act of renaming to change the way blacks were depicted and perceived in America. By challenging stereotypes of the Old Negro, and declaring that the New Negro was capable of high achievement, black writers tried to revolutionize how whites viewed blacks--and how blacks viewed themselves. Nothing less than a strategy to re-create the public face of "the race," the New Negro became a dominant figure of racial uplift between Reconstruction and World War II, as well as a central idea of the Harlem, or New Negro, Renaissance. Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Gene Andrew Jarrett, The New Negro collects more than one hundred canonical and lesser-known essays published between 1892 and 1938 that examine the issues of race and representation in African American culture" (publisher's description).
Item Number
A0409