Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction 1
5. I. The new Negro
6. "The New Negro" 23
7. An Appeal to the King (1895) 26
8. Afro-American Education (1900) 33
9. Heroes and Martyrs (1900) 36
10. The Club Movement among Colored Women of America (1900) 54
11. The Intellectual Progress of the Colored Women of the United States Since the Emancipation Proclamation (1894) 59
12. Rough Sketches: A Study of the Features of the New Negro Woman (1904) 66
13. Rough Sketches: The New Negro Man (1904) 67
14. An Ostracised Race in Ferment: The Conflict of Negro Parties and Negro Leaders Over Methods of Dealing with Their Own Problem (1908) 69
15. The New Negro (1916) 79
16. Returning Soldiers (1919) 85
17. The New Negro and the U.N.I.A. (1919) 92
18. As to "The New Negro" (1920) 96
19. The New Negro (1920) 97
20. The New Politics (1920) 101
21. Education and the Race (1925) 107
22. The New Negro (1925) 112
23. Sterling Brown: The New Negro Folk-Poet (1934) 119
24. The New Negro Hokum (1928) 123
25. Who Is the New Negro, and Why ? (1927) 129
26. The New Negro as Revealed in His Poetry (1927) 131
27. La Bourgeoisie Noire (1928-30) 137
28. The New Negro in Paris (1937) 141
29. The Rise of the Black Internationale (1938) 149
30. II. How Should Art Portray Negro?
31. One Phase of American Literature (1892) 157
32. Negro in Literature (1899) 172
33. The Negro in Books (1916) 173
34. The Negro in Literature (1924) 182
35. The Negro in Art: How Shall He Be Portrayed (1926) 190
36. Some Aspects of the Negro Interpreted in Contemporary American and European Literature (1934) 204
37. The Negro in Recent American Literature (1935) 211
38. III. The Renaissance
39. The Younger Literary Movement (1924) 219
40. Negro Youth Speaks (1925) 220
41. Uncle Tom's Mansion (1925) 223
42. The Aframerican: New Style (1926) 227
43. The Negro Renaissance (1926) 229
44. The Negro Renaissance (1926) 231
45. The Negro Literary Renaissance (1927) 233
46. The Negro "Renaissance" (1930) 237
47. The Negro Renaissance (1932) 240
48. Our Negro "Intellectuals" (1928) 246
49. For a Negro Magazine (1934) 251
50. IV. Art or Propaganda
51. Art and Propaganda (1921) 255
52. Propaganda in the Theatre (1924) 255
53. Criteria of Negro Art (1926) 257
54. Art or Propaganda? (1928) 260
55. Propaganda—or Poetry? (1936) 261
56. Blueprint for Negro Writing (1937) 268
57. V. Literature: History and Theory
58. Afro-American Women and Their Work (1895) 277
59. The Value of Race Literature (1895) 287
60. The Writing of a Novel (after 1899) 297
61. The Negro in Literature and Art (1913) 299
62. Negro Literature for Negro Pupils (1922) 302
63. Negro Race Consciousness as Reflected in Race Literature (1923) 305
64. Colored Authors and Their Contributions to the World's Literature (1923) 315
65. A Point of View (An Opportunity Dinner Reaction) (1925) 321
66. The Negro Digs Up His Past (1925) 326
67. A Note on the Sociology of Negro Literature (1925) 330
68. Negro Art, Past and Present (1926) 333
69. Survey of Negro Literature, 1760-1926 (1927) 337
70. Race Prejudice and the Negro Artist (1928) 343
71. Negro Literature (1931) 350
72. Characteristics of Negro Expression (1934) 355
73. The Negro Genius (1937) 364
74. VI. Literature the Literary Profession and the Marketplace
75. On a Certain Condescension in White Publishers (1922) 373
76. The Negro Audience (1925) 375
77. Negro Authors Must Eat (1929) 376
78. The Dilemma of the Negro Author (1928) 378
79. Negro Authors and White Publishers (1929) 382
80. Our Literary Audience (1930) 384
81. A Negro Writer to His Critics (1932) 390
82. Problems Facing the Negro Writer Today (1937) 394
83. VII. Literature Poetry
84. Some Contemporary Poets of the Negro Race (1919) 401
85. Dunbar's Poetry in Literary English (1921) 407
86. The Negro in Poetry (1923) 410
87. Old School of Negro "Critics" Hard on Paul Laurence Dunbar (1924) 413
88. Negro Poets and Their Poetry (1928) 415
89. The Negro Poets of the United States (1926) 422
90. Mr. Garvey as a Poet (1927) 426
91. VII. Music Spirituals
92. Negro Music (1899) 447
93. The Sorrow Songs (1903) 448
94. Negro Folk Song (1923) 453
95. The Negro Spirituals (1925) 457
96. The Negro Spirituals and American Art (1926) 464
97. Self-Portraiture and Social Criticism in Negro Folk-Song (1927) 467
98. Spirituals and Neo-Spirituals (1934) 473
99. IX. Music Jazz
100. "Whence Comes Jass?" (1917) 479
101. That Mysterious "Jazz" (1919) 480
102. Jazzing Away Prejudice (1919) 481
103. Where The Etude Stands on Jazz (1924) 482
104. Jazz at Home (1925) 492
105. From The Appeal of Jazz (1927) 496
106. Hot Jazz (1934) 499
107. From Swing That Music (1936) 501
108. X. Theater
109. The Negro in Drama (1922) 507
110. Reflections on O'NeilPs Plays (1924) 510
111. The Drama of Negro Life (1925) 511
112. The Gift of Laughter (1925) 515
113. Same Old Blues (1925) 518
114. The Drama of Negro Life (1926) 521
115. The Negro in the Field of Drama (1928) 524
116. Has the Negro a Place in the Theatre? (1928) 526
117. A Criticism of the Negro Drama as It Relates to the Negro Dramatist and Artist (1928) 527
118. From Black Manhattan (1930) 528
119. The Negro Theatre—A Dodo Bird (1934) 532
120. XI. The Fine Arts
121. A Note on African Art (1924) 537
122. The American Negro as Artist (1931) 541
123. African Art: Classic Style (1935) 546
124. Henry Ossawa Tanner (1924) 549
125. African Plastic in Contemporary Art (1927) 551
126. The Negro Artist and Modern Art (1934) 554
127. Bibliography of Primary Sources 559
128. Suggested Further Reading 563
129. Index 567