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This engaging reference text represents the voices of the era in poetry and prose, in full or excerpted from anecdotes, editorials, essays, manifestoes, orations, and reminiscences, with appearances by major figures and often overlooked contributors to the Harlem Renaissance.
Organized topically and, within topics, chronologically, the volume reaches beyond the typical representation of the spirit and substance of the movement, examinations of which are typically confined to the New York City community and from U.S. entry into World War I in 1917 to the depths of the Great Depression in 1935. It carries readers from the opening of the Harlem Renaissance, which began at the top of the 20th century, to its heights in the 1920s and '30s and through to its artistic and literary echoes in the shadows of World War II (1939–1945).
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781440855573 |
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| Publisher: | ABC-CLIO, Incorporated |
| Publication date: | 01/13/2021 |
| Series: | Eyewitness to History |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 243 |
| File size: | 2 MB |
About the Author
Brenda M. Brock, MA, ABD, is an independent scholar of American and African American literature.
Table of Contents
Preface xi
Evaluating and Interpreting Primary Documents xiii
Introduction xv
Chronology xxxix
Chapter 1 The New Negro Mecca: Harlem 1
1 "Harlem," Alain Locke (1925) 5
2 "The Black City," Eric Walrond (1924) 8
3 "The Making of Harlem," James Weldon Johnson (1925) 10
4 "The City of Refuge," Rudolph Fisher (1925) 13
5 "Harlem's Nightlife," Wallace Thurman (1927) 17
6 "Amateur Night in Harlem: 'That's Why Darkies Were Born,'" Dorothy West (1938) 19
7 "When Harlem Was in Vogue," Langston Hughes (1940) 21
Chapter 2 The New Negro: A New Time, A New People 25
8 "Lift Every Voice and Sing," James Weldon Johnson (1900) 28
9 "A New Negro for a New Century," Booker T. Washington et al. (1900) 30
10 "The Souls of Black Folk," W. E. B. Du Bois (1903) 32
11 "Possibilities of the Negro: The Advance Guard of the Race," W. E. B. Du Bois (1903) 36
12 "Public Opinion and the Negro," Charles S. Johnson (1923) 39
13 "The New Negro Faces America," Eric Walrond (1923) 42
14 "Enter the New Negro," Alain Locke (1925) 44
15 "Who Is the New Negro, and Why?" J. A. Rogers (1927) 49
Chapter 3 The New Negro at War 55
16 "Plea of the Negro Soldier," Charles F. White (1907) 58
17 "Her Thirteen Black Soldiers," Archibald H. Grimké (1917) 60
18 "Close Ranks," W. E. B. Du Bois (1918) 63
19 "Du Bois, One-Time Radical Leader Deserts and Betrays Cause of His Race," William Monroe Trotter (1918) 64
20 "A Negro Woman to Her Adopted Soldier Boy," Florence Lewis Bentley (1918) 65
21 "The American Negro in the World War," Emmett J. Scott (1919) 67
22 "Returning Soldiers," W. E. B. Du Bois (1919) 68
23 "The Colored Soldier," Langston Hughes (1919) 70
24 "Two Americans," Florence Lewis Bentley (1921) 71
25 "The Black Draftee from Dixie," Carrie Williams Clifford (1922) 75
Chapter 4 The New Negro on the Move 77
26 "Bound for the Promised Land," Chicago Defender (1916) 78
27 "Is Migration a Panacea?" Cleveland Advocate (1920) 81
28 "How Much Is the Migration a Flight from Persecution?" Charles S. Johnson (1923) 82
29 "Cotton Song," Jean Toomer (1923) 84
30 "Northboun'," Ariel Williams (1927) 85
31 "A Summer Tragedy," Arna Bontemps (1933) 86
Chapter 5 The New Negro under Attack 93
32 "The Lynching of Jube Benson," Paul Laurence Dunbar (1904) 95
33 "The Souths Ungolden Rule," Charles F. White (1907) 99
34 "Lynching: Our National Crime," Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1909) 100
35 "The Massacre in East St. Louis," NAACP (1917) 103
36 "Chicago and Its Eight Reasons," Walter F. White (1919) 106
37 "The Eruption of Tulsa," Walter F. White (1921) 110
38 "The Lynching," Claude McKay (1922) 112
39 "The Harvest of Race Prejudice," Kelly Miller (1925) 113
40 "Scottsboro," Langston Hughes (1931) 117
Chapter 6 The New Negro Self Vision 121
41 "If We Must Die," W. A. Domingo (1919) 126
42 "If We Must Die," Claude McKay (1919) 127
43 "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," Langston Hughes (1921) 128
44 "I Am a Negro," Marcus Garvey (1923) 129
45 "Vignettes of the Dusk," Eric Walrond (1924) 131
46 "Heritage: What Is Africa to Me?" Countee Cullen (1925) 133
47 "The New Negro College and the Negro Renaissance," Kelly Miller (1926) 137
48 "College," Loren R. Miller (1927) 138
49 "Africa-Our Challenge," Susie Wiseman Yergan (1930) 141
Chapter 7 The New Negro Woman 147
50 "The Colored Woman and Her Part in Race Regeneration," Fannie Barrier Williams (1900) 152
51 "The Heart of a Woman," Georgia Douglas Johnson (1918) 156
52 "This Must Not Be," Carita Owens Collins (1919) 157
53 "A Letter to the Editor," A Southern Colored Woman (1919) 159
54 "On Being Young-A Woman-and Colored," Marita Bonner (1925) 160
55 "Passing," Nella Larsen (1929) 164
Chapter 8 The New Negro Children 169
56 "The True Brownies," W. E. B. Du Bois (1919) 171
57 "Emmy," Jessie Redmon Fauset (1912) 173
58 "The Fairy Good Willa," Minnibelle Jones (1914) 177
59 "A Fairy Story," Carry S. Bond (1919) 180
60 "GYP: A Fairy Story," A. T. Kilpatrick (1921) 182
61 "The Judge," Jessie Redmon Fauset (1921) 183
62 "Drenched in Light," Zora Neale Hurston (1924) 185
63 "To a Dark Girl," Gwendolyn B. Bennett (1927) 189
Chapter 9 The New Negro Aesthetics 191
64 "The Hope of the Negro Drama," Willis Richardson (1919) 193
65 "Negro Art," Mary White Ovington (1921) 195
66 "The Negro Digs Up His Past," Arthur A. Schomburg (1925) 196
67 "Criteria of Negro Art," W. E. B. Du Bois (1926) 199
68 "Art or Propaganda?" Alain Locke (1928) 202
69 "A Brown Aesthete Speaks," Unsigned (1928) 204
70 "The Negro Artist and Modern Art," Romare Bearden (1934) 206
The New Negro Afterward: Conclusion 211
Bibliography 219
Index 229