| Contents |
Introduction -- The new South and the new Negro, 1885-1894 -- The Booker T. Washington era, 1895-1903 -- The W.E.B. Du Bois era, 1903-1916 -- Red summers and Black radicalisms, 1917-1921 -- The new Negro renaissance: Part one, 1922-1926 -- The new Negro renaissance: Part two, 1927-1932 -- The Depression, the New Deal, and Ethiopia, 1933-1937 -- Appendix: Looking backward, looking forward, 1938-1950. |
| Abstract |
"This newly reconceived anthology, a successor to the PUP title The New Negro: Readings on Race, Representation, and African American Culture, 1892-1938 (2007), reflects recent scholarship on the long and varied history of the 'New Negro' concept made famous in Alain Locke's 1925 anthology"--Provided by publisher. |
| Abstract |
"This book brings together a wealth of readings on the metaphor of the 'New Negro,' charting how generations of thinkers debated its meaning and seized on its potency to stake out an astonishingly broad and sometimes contradictory range of ideological positions. It features dozens of newly unearthed pieces by major figures such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Charles S. Johnson, and Drusilla Dunjee Houston as well as writings from Cuba, the US Virgin Islands, Dominica, France, Sierra Leone, South Africa, colonial Zimbabwe, and the United States. Demonstrating how this evocative and supremely protean concept predates its popularization in Alain Locke's 1925 anthology of the same name, The New Negro takes readers from its beginnings as a response to Henry Grady's famous 'New South' address in 1886 through the Harlem Renaissance and the New Deal. Opening a fascinating window into a largely unexplored chapter in African American, Afro-Latin American, and African intellectual history, this groundbreaking anthology includes writings by Gwendolyn Bennett, Marita Bonner, John Edward Bruce ('Bruce Grit'), Nannie Helen Burroughs, Charles W. Chesnutt, James Bertram Clarke ('José Clarana,' 'Jaime Gil'), Anna Julia Cooper, Alexander Crummell, Countee Cullen, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Marcus Garvey, Hubert Harrison, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, D. Hamilton Jackson, Fenton Johnson, Claude McKay, Oscar Micheaux, Jeanne 'Jane' Nardal, Jean Toomer, Gustavo Urrutia, Booker T. Washington, Dorothy West, Ruth Whitehead Whaley, Fannie Barrier Williams, Carter G. Woodson, and a host of others." -- Publisher's description. |
