“The Negro Fourth Estate”

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations xv
4. Preface xvii
5. Acknowledgments xxi
6. Introduction 1
7. PART I THE NEW SOUTH AND THE NEW NEGRO, 1885–1894
8. “The Need of New Ideas and New Aims for a New Era” 29
9. “The Negro on the Negro” 37
10. “The New Negro in the New South” 40
11. “Ingalls Denounced. The Colored Press Demands Justice and Fair Play. Let Everybody Read This.” 41
12. “National Capital Topics. Discrimination in the Pension Office.” 43
13. “The Afro-American Agitator” 43
14. “What the Negroes Owe Us” 46
15. “Pointers: Colored Voters Need Fixing” 49
16. “The New Negro” 55
17. “The Intellectual Progress of the Colored Women of the United States since the Emancipation Proclamation” 58
18. PART II THE BOOKER T. WASHINGTON ERA, 1895–1903
19. “A Race Problem to Solve” 69
20. “To the Editor of the New York World ” 71
21. “Is He a New Negro?” 72
22. “An Appeal to the King: The Address Delivered on Negro Day in the Atlanta Exposition,” October 21, 1895 78
23. “The Modern Negro” 85
24. “A Creed for the ‘New Negro’ ” 87
25. “The New Negro Woman” 88
26. “Our New Citizen” 91
27. “Domestic Evolution” 93
28. “The Colored Woman of To-day” 96
29. Imperium in Imperio: A Study of the Negro Race Problem, 1899 98
30. “Dr. Abbey on the Negro: Comparison of the New and Old Negro” 101
31. “Introduction” 103
32. “Afro American Education” 104
33. “The Club Movement among Colored Women in America” 108
34. “Negroes as Voters” 117
35. “Defense of the Negro Race—Charges Answered: Speech of Hon. George H. White, of North Carolina, in the House of Representatives, January 29, 1901” 121
36. “An Appeal from the New to the New” 123
37. “Women’s Development in Business” 125
38. “Crisis to Virginia Farmer” 128
39. PART III THE W. E. B. DU BOIS ERA, 1903–1916
40. “Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others” 135
41. “The New Negro Literary Movement” 141
42. “Some Fresh Suggestions about the New Negro Crime” 144
43. “The Negro Woman: I—Social and Moral Decadence” 147
44. “A Historical and Psychological Account of the Genesis and Development of the Negro’s Religion” 152
45. “The Lynching of Negroes: Its Causes and Prevention” 157
46. “Lynching from a Negro’s Point of View” 166
47. “Rough Sketches: A Study of the Features of the New Negro Woman” 175
48. “Rough Sketches: The New Negro Man” 178
49. “Rough Sketches: William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, Ph.D.” 181
50. “The Passing Throng” 185
51. “A Lesson from ‘The Clansman’ ” 186
52. “Following the Color Line: The Clash of the Races in a Southern City” 188
53. “The New Negro” 191
54. “Report to the Eighth Annual Session of the Woman’s Convention, Auxiliary to the National Baptist Convention” 197
55. “Why They Call American Music Ragtime” 200
56. “Man May Evade His Duty, but He Cannot Escape the Penalty of Responsibility” 203
57. “The Schooling of the Negro” 205
58. “Negro Ideals: Their Effect and Their Embarrassments” 210
59. “Chapter Eight: Henry Hugh Hodder” 216
60. “The New Negro” 220
61. “The Negro in Fiction” 226
62. PART IV RED SUMMERS AND BLACK RADICALISMS, 1917–1921
63. “The Editor’s Blue Pencil” 231
64. “The New Negro Is Here: Negro Socialists Are Helping to Solve Race Problem in New Way” 232
65. “A Great Day for the New Negro and the New South, All Daily White Papers Give Very Prominent and Clever Mention in Their Columns” 233
66. “The New Negro” 238
67. “The Ku Klux Are Riding Again!” 239
68. “Returning Soldiers” 242
69. “Mothers of Men and Women of Mark” 246
70. “Who’s Who: A New Crowd—A New Negro” 247
71. “Changes in Psychology” 249
72. “As the Currents Flow” 251
73. “The Black Man’s Barrier” 252
74. “If We Must Die” 254
75. “The White War and the Colored Races” 255
76. “The Old Negro Goes: Let Him Go in Peace” 260
77. “Reconstruction: Prominent Men of Both Races Discuss a Program for the Improvement of Race Relations” 260
78. “The New Negro and the U.N.I.A.” 263
79. “The Shame of America, or the Negro’s Case against the Republic” 269
80. “New Currents of Thought among the Colored People of America” 276
81. “Radicals and Raids” 283
82. “The New Politics: The New Politics for the New Negro” and “Education and the Race” 290
83. “The Outlook for the Negro” 298
84. “Letter to the Editor” 304
85. “The New Negro” 307
86. “The Negro Fourth Estate” 311
87. “The New Negro—What Is He?” 316
88. “The New Negro & His Will to Manhood & Achievement” 318
89. “Editorial” 322
90. “A. M. E. Church and Negro Movement” 323
91. “The Negro Woman Voter” 324
92. “A Desideratum” 326
93. “The Damnation of Women” 328
94. “The New Negro” 336
95. “To New Negroes Who Really Seek Liberation” 338
96. “Speech on Disarmament Conference Delivered at Liberty Hall” [November 6, 1921] 340
97. PART V THE NEW NEGRO RENAISSANCE: PART ONE, 1922–1926
98. “Art and Propaganda” 345
99. “The Negro Woman of Today” 345
100. “Closed Doors: A Study in Segregation” 346
101. “The New Negro Woman” 349
102. “The League of Youth” 349
103. “Kelly Miller Says: The New Negro” 351
104. “Sparks from the Fiery Cross” 351
105. “The New Woman” 352
106. “Negro Women in Industry” 352
107. “Charles S. Blodgett” 357
108. “Watchman What of the Night?” 357
109. “The New Negro” 362
110. “The Negro Emergent” 371
111. “The New Negro: A Notice of Alain Locke’s Book” 376
112. “Woman’s Function in Life” 377
113. “The Latest Negro” 379
114. “The Myth of the New Negro” 380
115. “From the Woman’s Point of View” 382
116. “The Ebony Flute” 384
117. “The American Negro Evolving a New Physical Type” 387
118. “Has the Negro Church Been Weighed in the Balance and Found Wanting?” 393
119. “The Brotherhood” 397
120. PART VI THE NEW NEGRO RENAISSANCE: PART TWO, 1927–1932
121. “ ‘Economic Emancipation’ Is Platform of ‘New Negro’ ” 403
122. “Building Tomorrow’s World: The New White Man” 405
123. “Woman’s Most Serious Problem” 407
124. “No New Literary Renaissance, Says Well Known Writer” 410
125. “These Bad New Negroes: A Critique on Critics” 412
126. Letter from Claude McKay to Alain Locke 416
127. “Timely Topics: Leave ’em Alone!” 417
128. “Hard for Modern Young Man to Find Girl without Past: Writer Hits ‘New Freedom’ as Responsible for Girls Losing Poise and ‘Finesse’ ” 419
129. “Negro Life in New York’s Harlem: A Lively Picture of a Popular and Interesting Section” 420
130. “Women in Chicago Politics” 422
131. Excerpts from Chicago and the New Negro 425
132. “The New Negro” 434
133. “La Bourgeoisie Noire” 436
134. “Internationalisme Noir” (Black Internationalism) 440
135. “The Young Blood Hungers” 443
136. “Pink Teas” 445
137. “A Chapel Talk: To the Students of Fisk University” 447
138. Excerpt from Gentleman Jigger: A Novel of the Harlem Renaissance, 1928–1933 453
139. “The New Negro” 457
140. “The Negro in Present Day Fiction” 458
141. “Manish Women” 465
142. “An Appeal to Young Negroes,” ca. 1930 467
143. “Between the Lines: Some New Negroes Also!” 469
144. “The Emancipated Woman” 470
145. “Writer Discusses Communism and the Negro, Finds It Undesirable” 474
146. “What the New Negro Is Thinking” 476
147. “The New Negro Begins to Exhibit Much Pride in His Racial Identity” 483
148. “Types of Negro Character Illustrations Most Pleasing and Most Displeasing to Negroes” 485
149. “The Negro Renaissance” 488
150. PART VII THE DEPRESSION, THE NEW DEAL, AND ETHIOPIA, 1933–1937
151. “Rawlins Writes on Segregation” 497
152. Letters from Dorothy West to James Weldon Johnson, 1933–1937 497
153. “Alliance vs. High’s Ice Cream” 499
154. “Sterling Brown: The New Negro Folk-Poet” 500
155. “An Essay on the Negro” 502
156. “Program of the New Negro Alliance” 504
157. “The New Deal, the New Year, the New Negro” 505
158. “The Future Is Ours” 506
159. “Puntos de Vista del Nuevo Negro” (Points of View of the New Negro) 507
160. APPENDIX LOOKING BACKWARD, LOOKING FORWARD, 1938–1950 523
161. Notes 541
162. Selected Bibliography 569
163. About the Authors 575
164. Index 611