The New Negro : : Readings on Race, Representation, and African American Culture, 1892-1938 / / ed. by Henry Louis Gates, Gene Andrew Jarrett.

• MitwirkendeR: Adolphus Stewart, Gustavus,; Alan Potamkin, Harry,; Armstrong, Louis,; Barnes, Albert C.,; Barrier Williams, Fannie,; Bearden, Romare,; Bledsoe, Jules,; Botkin, B. A.,; Bowen, J. W. E.,; Brawley, Benjamin,; Brown, Sterling A.,; Buermeyer, Laurence,; Chesnutt, Charles W.,; Clay, Eugene,; Cooper, Anna Julia,; Davis, Allison,; Dearmond, Fred,; Doren, Carl van,; Du Bois, W .E. B.,; Du Bois, W. E. B.,; Dunbar-Nelson, Alice,; Earle Matthews, Victoria,; Eaton Burch, Charles,; Edward Bruce, John,; Fauset, Jessie,; Fortune, T.Thomas,; Frazier, E. Franklin,; Gaines, Irene M.,; Garuey, Marcus,; Gates, Henry Louis,; Goffin, Robert,; Gregory, Montgomery,; Gruening, Martha,; Harrison, Hubert H.,; Henry Adams, John,; Holmes, Eugene C.,; Jacobs, George W.,; Jarrett, Gene Andrew,; Kingsley, Walter,; Laurence Dunbar, Paul,; Lewis, Theophilus,; Locke, Alain,; Lynde Hartt, Rollin,; Matheus, John Frederick,; Matthews, Ralph,; McKay, Claude,; Mencken, H. L.,; Mendl, R. W. S.,; Millard Henry, Thomas,; Morris, Lloyd,; Neale Hurston, Zora,; Oxley, Thomas L. G.,; Park, Robert E.,; Pickens, William,; Ray Moryck, Brenda,; Richardson, Willis,; Robeson, Paul,; Robinson, Geroid,; Rogers, J. A.,; Schomburg, Arthur A.,; Schuyler, George S.,; Spence, Eulalie,; Stanley Braithwaite, William,; Stannard Baker, Ray,; Taussig, Charlotte E.,; Thurman, Wallace,; Tillman, Katherine,; Vechten, Carl van,; Vernon, Grenville,; Walrond, Eric,; Washington, Booker T.,; Weldon Johnson, James,; White, Walter,; Wood, N. B.,; Woodham Jelliffe, Rowena,; Work, John W.,; Wright, Rev. W. E. C.,; Wright, Richard,
• HerausgeberIn: Gates, Henry Louis,; Jarrett, Gene Andrew,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (608 p.)

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. These readings--by writers including W.E.B. Du Bois, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Alain Locke, Carl Van Vechten, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Wright--discuss the trope of the New Negro, and the milieu in which this figure existed, from almost every conceivable angle. Political essays are joined by essays on African American fiction, poetry, drama, music, painting, and sculpture. More than fascinating historical documents, these essays remain essential to the way African American identity and history are still understood today.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. The new Negro -- "The New Negro" -- An Appeal to the King (1895) -- Afro-American Education (1900) -- Heroes and Martyrs (1900) -- The Club Movement among Colored Women of America (1900) -- The Intellectual Progress of the Colored Women of the United States Since the Emancipation Proclamation (1894) -- Rough Sketches: A Study of the Features of the New Negro Woman (1904) -- Rough Sketches: The New Negro Man (1904) -- An Ostracised Race in Ferment: The Conflict of Negro Parties and Negro Leaders Over Methods of Dealing with Their Own Problem (1908) -- The New Negro (1916) -- Returning Soldiers (1919) -- The New Negro and the U.N.I.A. (1919) -- As to "The New Negro" (1920) -- The New Negro (1920) -- The New Politics (1920) -- Education and the Race (1925) -- The New Negro (1925) -- Sterling Brown: The New Negro Folk-Poet (1934) -- The New Negro Hokum (1928) -- Who Is the New Negro, and Why ? (1927) -- The New Negro as Revealed in His Poetry (1927) -- La Bourgeoisie Noire (1928-30) -- The New Negro in Paris (1937) -- The Rise of the Black Internationale (1938) -- II. How Should Art Portray Negro? -- One Phase of American Literature (1892) -- Negro in Literature (1899) -- The Negro in Books (1916) -- The Negro in Literature (1924) -- The Negro in Art: How Shall He Be Portrayed (1926) -- Some Aspects of the Negro Interpreted in Contemporary American and European Literature (1934) -- The Negro in Recent American Literature (1935) -- III. The Renaissance -- The Younger Literary Movement (1924) -- Negro Youth Speaks (1925) -- Uncle Tom's Mansion (1925) -- The Aframerican: New Style (1926) -- The Negro Renaissance (1926) -- The Negro Renaissance (1926) -- The Negro Literary Renaissance (1927) -- The Negro "Renaissance" (1930) -- The Negro Renaissance (1932) -- Our Negro "Intellectuals" (1928) -- For a Negro Magazine (1934) -- IV. Art or Propaganda -- Art and Propaganda (1921) -- Propaganda in the Theatre (1924) -- Criteria of Negro Art (1926) -- Art or Propaganda? (1928) -- Propaganda-or Poetry? (1936) -- Blueprint for Negro Writing (1937) -- V. Literature: History and Theory -- Afro-American Women and Their Work (1895) -- The Value of Race Literature (1895) -- The Writing of a Novel (after 1899) -- The Negro in Literature and Art (1913) -- Negro Literature for Negro Pupils (1922) -- Negro Race Consciousness as Reflected in Race Literature (1923) -- Colored Authors and Their Contributions to the World's Literature (1923) -- A Point of View (An Opportunity Dinner Reaction) (1925) -- The Negro Digs Up His Past (1925) -- A Note on the Sociology of Negro Literature (1925) -- Negro Art, Past and Present (1926) -- Survey of Negro Literature, 1760-1926 (1927) -- Race Prejudice and the Negro Artist (1928) -- Negro Literature (1931) -- Characteristics of Negro Expression (1934) -- The Negro Genius (1937) -- VI. Literature the Literary Profession and the Marketplace -- On a Certain Condescension in White Publishers (1922) -- The Negro Audience (1925) -- Negro Authors Must Eat (1929) -- The Dilemma of the Negro Author (1928) -- Negro Authors and White Publishers (1929) -- Our Literary Audience (1930) -- A Negro Writer to His Critics (1932) -- Problems Facing the Negro Writer Today (1937) -- VII. Literature Poetry -- Some Contemporary Poets of the Negro Race (1919) -- Dunbar's Poetry in Literary English (1921) -- The Negro in Poetry (1923) -- Old School of Negro "Critics" Hard on Paul Laurence Dunbar (1924) -- Negro Poets and Their Poetry (1928) -- The Negro Poets of the United States (1926) -- Mr. Garvey as a Poet (1927) -- VII. Music Spirituals -- Negro Music (1899) -- The Sorrow Songs (1903) -- Negro Folk Song (1923) -- The Negro Spirituals (1925) -- The Negro Spirituals and American Art (1926) -- Self-Portraiture and Social Criticism in Negro Folk-Song (1927) -- Spirituals and Neo-Spirituals (1934) -- IX. Music Jazz -- "Whence Comes Jass?" (1917) -- That Mysterious "Jazz" (1919) -- Jazzing Away Prejudice (1919) -- Where The Etude Stands on Jazz (1924) -- Jazz at Home (1925) -- From The Appeal of Jazz (1927) -- Hot Jazz (1934) -- From Swing That Music (1936) -- X. Theater -- The Negro in Drama (1922) -- Reflections on O'NeilPs Plays (1924) -- The Drama of Negro Life (1925) -- The Gift of Laughter (1925) -- Same Old Blues (1925) -- The Drama of Negro Life (1926) -- The Negro in the Field of Drama (1928) -- Has the Negro a Place in the Theatre? (1928) -- A Criticism of the Negro Drama as It Relates to the Negro Dramatist and Artist (1928) -- From Black Manhattan (1930) -- The Negro Theatre-A Dodo Bird (1934) -- XI. The Fine Arts -- A Note on African Art (1924) -- The American Negro as Artist (1931) -- African Art: Classic Style (1935) -- Henry Ossawa Tanner (1924) -- African Plastic in Contemporary Art (1927) -- The Negro Artist and Modern Art (1934) -- Bibliography of Primary Sources -- Suggested Further Reading -- Index