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1 online resource (xviii, 446 pages, 17 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, music, portraits (some color) |
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Black thought and culture
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Foreword / Alain Locke -- Part 1. The Negro renaissance. 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. City of refuge ; Vestiges / Rudolph Fisher ; Fog / John Matheus ; Carma, from Cane ; Fern, from Cane / Jean Toomer ; Spunk / Zora Neale Hurston ; Sahdji / Bruce Nugent ; Palm porch / Eric Walrond -- Poetry. Poems / Countée Cullen ; Poems / Claude McKay ; Poems / Jean Toomer ; The creation / James Weldon Johnson ; Poems / Langston Hughes ; The day-breakers / Arna Bontemps ; Poems / Georgia Douglas Johnson ; Lady, lady / Anne Spencer ; The black finger / Angelina Grimké ; Enchantment / Lewis 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 ; 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 / Countée Cullen ; The legacy of the ancestral arts / Alain Locke -- |
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Part 2. 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 the American 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 -- Bibliography. Who's who of the contributors ; Selected list of Negro Americana and Africana ; The Negro in literature ; Negro drama ; Negro music ; Negro folk lore ; The Negro race problem |
| Summary |
"The New Negro: An Interpretation is an anthology of fiction, poetry, and essays on African and African-American art and literature edited by Alain Locke, who lived in Washington, DC, and taught at Howard University during the Harlem Renaissance. As a collection of the creative efforts coming out of the burgeoning New Negro Movement or Harlem Renaissance, the book is considered by literary scholars and critics to be the definitive text of the movement ... The New Negro: An Interpretation dives into how the African Americans sought social, political, and artistic change. Instead of accepting their position in society, Locke saw the new negro as championing and demanding civil rights. In addition, his anthology sought to change old stereotypes and replaced them with new visions of black identity that resisted simplification. The essays and poems in the anthology mirror real life events and experiences. The anthology reflects the voice of middle class African American citizens that wanted to have equal civil rights like the white, middle class counterparts. However, some writers, such as Langston Hughes, sought to give voice to the lower, working class"--Wikipedia, viewed June 9, 2021 |
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Includes illustrations by Aaron Douglas |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-446) |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Online resource (HathiTrust, HeinOnline, viewed January 5, 2022) |
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African Americans -- Literary collections
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Harlem Renaissance -- Literary collections
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American literature -- African American authors -- 20th century
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American literature -- African American authors -- 20th century -- Bibliography
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American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism
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African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
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African Americans in literature.
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African Americans -- Intellectual life.
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Harlem Renaissance.
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African Americans.
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African Americans in literature.
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African Americans -- Intellectual life.
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American literature -- African American authors.
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poetry.
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essays.
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Literature.
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Songs.
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Poetry.
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Literary criticism.
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Fiction.
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Essays.
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Drama.
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Bibliographies.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literary collections.
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Fiction.
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Poetry.
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Drama.
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Songs.
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Essays.
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Literary criticism.
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Literature.
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Romans.
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Poésie.
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Théâtre.
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Essais.
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Critiques littéraires.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Locke, Alain, 1885-1954, editor, contributor.
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Reiss, Winold, 1886-1953, illustrator.
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Douglas, Aaron, illustrator
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Albert & Charles Boni, publisher.
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