The New negro / edited by Alain Locke ; with an introduction by Arnold Rampersad.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Locke, Alain, 1885-1954
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Simon & Schuster, 1997.
Edition:First Touchstone edition.
Subjects:
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
American literature > African American authors.
African Americans > Literary collections.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans > Civilization.
Genre:
Literary collections.
Physical Description:xxxiv, 452 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The New Negro / Alain Locke
  • Negro art and America / Albert C. Barnes
  • The Negro in American literature / William Stanley Braithwaite
  • negro youth speaks / Alain Locke
  • Fiction: The city of refuge / Rudolph Fisher
  • Vestiges / Rudolph Fisher
  • Fog / John Matheus
  • Carma, from the Cane / Jean Toomer
  • Fern, from Cane / Jean Toomer
  • Spunjk / Zora Neale Hurston
  • Sahdji / Bruce Nugent
  • The palm porch / Eric Walrond.
  • Poetry: Poems / Countee Cullen
  • Poems / Claude McKay
  • Poems / Jean Toomer
  • The creation / James Weldon Johnson
  • Poems / Langston Hughes
  • The day-breakers / Arna Bontempos
  • Poems / Georgia Johnson
  • lady, lady / Anne Spencer
  • The black finger / Angelina Grimke
  • Enchantment / Lewisi Alexander.
  • Drama:
  • The drama of Negro life / Montgomery Gregory
  • The gift of laughter / Jessie Fauset
  • Compromise (a folk play) / Willis Richardson.
  • Music: The Negro spirituals / Alain Locke
  • Negro dancers / Claude McKay
  • jazz at home / J.A. Rogers
  • Song / Gwendolyn B. Bennett
  • Jazzonia / Langston Hughes
  • Nude young dancer / Langston Hughes.
  • The Negro digs up his past / Arthur A. Schomburg
  • American Negro folk literature / Arthur Huff Fauset
  • T'appin / Told by Cugo Lewis
  • B'rer Rabbit fools Buzzard
  • Heritage / Contee Cullen
  • The legacy of the ancestral arts / Alain Locke
  • Part II: The new Negro in a new world
  • The Negro pioneers / Paul U. Kellogg
  • The new frontage on American life / Charles S. Johnson
  • The road / Helene Johnson
  • The new scene: Harlem; the culture capital / James Weldon Johnson
  • Howard: the national Negro university / Kelly Miller
  • Hampton-Tuskegee: missioners of the masses / Robert R. Moton
  • Durham: capital of the black middle class / E. Franklin Frazier
  • Gift of the black tropics / W. A. Domingo
  • The Negro and theAmerican tradition; The Negro's Americanism / Melville J. Herskovits
  • The paradox of color / Walter White
  • The task of Negro womanhood / Elise Johnson McDougald
  • Worlds of color: The Negro mind reaches out / W.E.B. Dubois.
  • Who's who of the contributors
  • A selected list of Negro Americana and Africana
  • The Negro in literature
  • Negro drama
  • Negro music
  • negro folk lore
  • The Negro race problems.