The Making Of The New Negro

Author : Anna Pochmara
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789089643193

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The Making of the New Negro by Anna Pochmara Pdf

The Making of the New Negro examines black masculinity in the period of the New Negro/Harlem Renaissance, which for many decades did not attract a lot of scholarly attention, until, in the 1990s, many scholars discovered how complex, significant, and fascinating it was. Using African American published texts, American archives and unpublished writings, and contemporaneous European discourses, this book focuses both on the canonical figures of the New Negro Movement and African American culture, such as W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, Alain Locke, and Richard Wright, and on writers who have not received as much scholarly attention despite their significance for the movement, such as Wallace Thurman. Its perspective combines gender, sexuality, and race studies with a thorough literary analysis and historicist investigation, an approach that has not been extensively applied to analyze the New Negro Renaissance.

Author : Alain Locke
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780486849164

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The New Negro by Alain Locke Pdf

Widely regarded as the key text of the Harlem Renaissance, this landmark anthology of fiction, poetry, essays, drama, music, and illustration includes contributions by Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, James Weldon Johnson, and other luminaries.

Author : Barbara Foley
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252091247

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Spectres of 1919 by Barbara Foley Pdf

A look at the violent “Red Summer of 1919” and its intersection with the highly politicized New Negro movement and the Harlem Renaissance With the New Negro movement and the Harlem Renaissance, the 1920s was a landmark decade in African American political and cultural history, characterized by an upsurge in racial awareness and artistic creativity. In Spectres of 1919 Barbara Foley traces the origins of this revolutionary era to the turbulent year 1919, identifying the events and trends in American society that spurred the black community to action and examining the forms that action took as it evolved. Unlike prior studies of the Harlem Renaissance, which see 1919 as significant mostly because of the geographic migrations of blacks to the North, Spectres of 1919 looks at that year as the political crucible from which the radicalism of the 1920s emerged. Foley draws from a wealth of primary sources, taking a bold new approach to the origins of African American radicalism and adding nuance and complexity to the understanding of a fascinating and vibrant era.

Author : Jeffrey C. Stewart
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 945 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195089578

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The New Negro by Jeffrey C. Stewart Pdf

"A tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Philadelphia around the turn of the century to mentor a generation of young artists including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jacob Lawrence and call them the New Negro--the creative African Americans whose art, literature, music, and drama would inspire Black people to greatness. [The author] offers the definitive biography of the father of the Harlem Renaissance, based on the extant primary sources of his life and on interviews with those who knew him personally"--Amazon.com.

Author : Daphne Lamothe
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812204049

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Inventing the New Negro by Daphne Lamothe Pdf

It is no coincidence, Daphne Lamothe writes, that so many black writers and intellectuals of the first half of the twentieth century either trained formally as ethnographers or worked as amateur collectors of folklore and folk culture. In Inventing the New Negro Lamothe explores the process by which key figures such as Zora Neale Hurston, Katherine Dunham, W. E. B. Du Bois, James Weldon Johnson, and Sterling Brown adapted ethnography and folklore in their narratives to create a cohesive, collective, and modern black identity. Lamothe explores how these figures assumed the roles of self-reflective translators and explicators of African American and African diasporic cultures to Western, largely white audiences. Lamothe argues that New Negro writers ultimately shifted the presuppositions of both literary modernism and modernist anthropology by making their narratives as much about ways of understanding as they were about any quest for objective knowledge. In critiquing the ethnographic framework within which they worked, they confronted the classist, racist, and cultural biases of the dominant society and challenged their readers to imagine a different set of relations between the powerful and the oppressed. Inventing the New Negro combines an intellectual history of one of the most important eras of African American letters with nuanced and original readings of seminal works of literature. It will be of interest not only to Harlem Renaissance scholars but to anyone who is interested in the intersections of culture, literature, folklore, and ethnography.

Author : Rachel Farebrother,Miriam Thaggert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781108493574

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A History of the Harlem Renaissance by Rachel Farebrother,Miriam Thaggert Pdf

This book presents original essays that explore the eclecticism of Harlem Renaissance literature and culture.

Author : William J. Maxwell
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Education
ISBN : 0231114257

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New Negro, Old Left by William J. Maxwell Pdf

Maxwell uncovers both black literature's debt to Communism and Communism's debt to black literature, reciprocal obligations first incurred during the Harlem Renaissance.

Author : Anne Elizabeth Carroll
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 0253345839

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Word, Image, and the New Negro by Anne Elizabeth Carroll Pdf

This book focuses on the collaborative illustrated volumes published during the Harlem Renaissance, in which African Americans used written and visual texts to shape ideas about themselves and to redefine African American identity. Anne Elizabeth Carroll argues that these volumes show how participants in the movement engaged in the processes of representation and identity formation in sophisticated and largely successful ways. Though they have received little scholarly attention, these volumes constitute an important aspect of the cultural production of the Harlem Renaissance. Word, Image, and the New Negro marks the beginning of a long-overdue recovery of this legacy and points the way to a greater understanding of the potential of texts to influence social change. Anne Elizabeth Carroll is Assistant Professor of English at Wichita State University.

Author : Davarian L. Baldwin
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807887609

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Chicago's New Negroes by Davarian L. Baldwin Pdf

As early-twentieth-century Chicago swelled with an influx of at least 250,000 new black urban migrants, the city became a center of consumer capitalism, flourishing with professional sports, beauty shops, film production companies, recording studios, and other black cultural and communal institutions. Davarian Baldwin argues that this mass consumer marketplace generated a vibrant intellectual life and planted seeds of political dissent against the dehumanizing effects of white capitalism. Pushing the traditional boundaries of the Harlem Renaissance to new frontiers, Baldwin identifies a fresh model of urban culture rich with politics, ingenuity, and entrepreneurship. Baldwin explores an abundant archive of cultural formations where an array of white observers, black cultural producers, critics, activists, reformers, and black migrant consumers converged in what he terms a "marketplace intellectual life." Here the thoughts and lives of Madam C. J. Walker, Oscar Micheaux, Andrew "Rube" Foster, Elder Lucy Smith, Jack Johnson, and Thomas Dorsey emerge as individual expressions of a much wider spectrum of black political and intellectual possibilities. By placing consumer-based amusements alongside the more formal arenas of church and academe, Baldwin suggests important new directions for both the historical study and the constructive future of ideas and politics in American life.

Author : Cherene Sherrard-Johnson
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780813539775

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Portraits of the New Negro Woman by Cherene Sherrard-Johnson Pdf

Of all the images to arise from the Harlem Renaissance, the most thought-provoking were those of the mulatta. For some writers, artists, and filmmakers, these images provided an alternative to the stereotypes of black womanhood and a challenge to the color line. For others, they represented key aspects of modernity and race coding central to the New Negro Movement. Due to the mulatta's frequent ability to pass for white, she represented a variety of contradictory meanings that often transcended racial, class, and gender boundaries. In this engaging narrative, Cherene Sherrard-Johnson uses the writings of Nella Larsen and Jessie Fauset as well as the work of artists like Archibald Motley and William H. Johnson to illuminate the centrality of the mulatta by examining a variety of competing arguments about race in the Harlem Renaissance and beyond.

Author : Alain Locke
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486845616

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New Negro: An Interpretation by Alain Locke Pdf

Widely regarded as the key text of the Harlem Renaissance, this landmark anthology of fiction, poetry, essays, drama, music, and illustration includes contributions by Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, James Weldon Johnson, and other luminaries.

Author : Henry Louis Gates Jr.,Gene Andrew Jarrett
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781400827879

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The New Negro by Henry Louis Gates Jr.,Gene Andrew Jarrett Pdf

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.

Author : Christopher J. Lebron,Lebron
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197577349

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The Making Of Black Lives Matter by Christopher J. Lebron,Lebron Pdf

"An introduction for the second edition of a book like The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea is a less straightforward thing than it might first seem. Typically, when an author revisits a book, some years later, their ruminations center on how they may have become clearer on the ideas in their book, taken into consideration critical corrections, or maybe, generally how their own thinking has matured thanks to the miracle of living a life. But as I sit here, towards the end of 2021, experiencing a late fall in which the leaves seem to refuse to quit the trees, I am reflecting in the midst of an entirely different set of considerations"--

Author : Brenda Murphy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1999-06-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521576806

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The Cambridge Companion to American Women Playwrights by Brenda Murphy Pdf

This volume addresses the work of women playwrights throughout the history of the American theatre, from the early pioneers to contemporary feminists. Each chapter introduces the reader to the work of one or more playwrights and to a way of thinking about plays. Together they cover significant writers such as Rachel Crothers, Susan Glaspell, Lillian Hellman, Sophie Treadwell, Lorraine Hansberry, Alice Childress, Megan Terry, Ntozake Shange, Adrienne Kennedy, Wendy Wasserstein, Marsha Norman, Beth Henley and Maria Irene Fornes. Playwrights are discussed in the context of topics such as early comedy and melodrama, feminism and realism, the Harlem Renaissance, the feminist resurgence of the 1970s and feminist dramatic theory. A detailed chronology and illustrations enhance the volume, which also includes bibliographical essays on recent criticism and on African-American women playwrights before 1930.

Author : Mary M. Jefferson,Mary M. Jefferson and Mylia Tiye Mal Jaza
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781462811755

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The Old Negro and the New Negro By T. Leroy Jefferson, Md by Mary M. Jefferson,Mary M. Jefferson and Mylia Tiye Mal Jaza Pdf