The New Negro

Author : Alain Locke
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-24
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781513287416

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The New Negro by Alain Locke Pdf

The New Negro (1925) is an anthology by Alain Locke. Expanded from a March issue of Survey Graphic magazine, The New Negro compiles writing from such figures as Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Toomer, and Locke himself. Recognized as a foundational text of the Harlem Renaissance, the collection is organized around Locke’s writing on the function of art in reorganizing the conception of African American life and culture. Through self-understanding, creation, and independence, Locke’s New Negro came to represent a break from an inhumane past, a means toward meaningful change for a people held down for far too long. “[F]or generations in the mind of America, the Negro has been more of a formula than a human being—a something to be argued about, condemned or defended, to be ‘kept down,’ or ‘in his place,’ or ‘helped up,’ to be worried with or worried over, harassed or patronized, a social bogey or a social burden.” Identifying the representation of black Americans in the national imaginary as oppressive in nature, Locke suggests a way forward through his theory of the New Negro, who “wishes to be known for what he is, even in his faults and shortcomings, and scorns a craven and precarious survival at the price of seeming to be what he is not.” Throughout The New Negro, leading artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance offer their unique visions of who and what they are; voicing their concerns, portraying injustice, and illuminating the black experience, they provide a holistic vision of self-expression in all of its colors and forms. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Alain Locke’s The New Negro is a classic of African American literature reimagined for modern readers.

Author : Alain Locke
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 43,6 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 : Jeffrey C. Stewart
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 945 pages
File Size : 41,8 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 : Alain Locke
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781504066075

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The New Negro by Alain Locke Pdf

A portrait of the vibrant world of 1920s Harlem, with writings by Langston Hughes, W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, Walter White, and more. The Harlem Renaissance was a landmark period in African American history—a time when black poets, musicians, intellectuals, civil rights activists, and others changed the social and cultural landscape in enduring ways. Its influence went far beyond the confines of uptown New York City, as it incorporated voices from the Great Migration, in which African Americans moved north in vast numbers; and elevated artists and thinkers who would become iconic figures in not only Black history, but also American history. Now considered the definitive work of the Harlem Renaissance, The New Negro features fiction, poetry, and essays that shaped the era. “A book of unusual interest and value.” —The New York Times “[Locke was] the godfather of the Harlem Renaissance.” —Publishers Weekly “Alain Locke is a critical—and complex—figure in any discussion of African-American intellectual history.” —Kirkus Reviews

Author : Alain Locke
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780525506881

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The New Negro Aesthetic by Alain Locke Pdf

Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer edits a collection of Alain Locke's influential essays on the importance of the Black artist and the Black imagination A Penguin Classic For months, the philosopher Alain Locke wrestled with the idea of the Negro as America's most vexing problem. He asked how shall Negroes think of themselves as he considered the new crop of poets, novelists, and short story writers who, in 1924, wrote about their experiences as Black people in America. He did not want to frame Harlem and Black writing as yet another protest against racism, nor did he want to focus on the sociological perspective on the "Negro problem" and Harlem as a site of crime, poverty, and dysfunction. He wanted to find new language and a new way for Black people to think of themselves. The essays and articles collected in this volume, by Locke's Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer, are the result of that new attitude and the struggle to instill the New Negro aesthetics, as Stewart calls it here, into the mind of the twentieth century. To be a New Negro poet, novelist, actor, musician, dancer, or filmmaker was to commit oneself to an arc of self-discovery of what and who the Negro was—would be—without fear that one would disappoint the white or Black bystander. In committing to that path, Locke asserted, one would uncover a "being-in-the-world" that was rich and bountiful in its creative possibilities, if Black people could turn off the noise of racism and see themselves for who they really are: a world of creative people who have transformed, powerfully and perpetually, the culture of wherever history or social forces landed them.

Author : Cherene Sherrard-Johnson
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 53,5 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 LeRoy Locke
Publisher : Black Classic Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0933121059

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Harlem, Mecca of the New Negro by Alain LeRoy Locke Pdf

The contributors to this edition include W.E.B Du Bois, Arthur Schomburg, James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, and Countee Cullen. Harlem Mecca is an indispensable aid toward gaining a better understanding of the Harlem Renaissance.

Author : David L. Lewis,David Levering Lewis
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : African Americans
ISBN : UOM:39015032430426

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The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader by David L. Lewis,David Levering Lewis Pdf

The best literature that emerged from a flowering of African American culture centered in Harlem between the world wars.

Author : Anna Pochmara
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 50,9 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 : Anne Elizabeth Carroll
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 49,8 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 : William J. Maxwell
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 52,9 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 : Mark Whalan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0813032067

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The Great War and the Culture of the New Negro by Mark Whalan Pdf

Examining the legacy of the Great War on African American culture, this book considers the work of such canonical writers as W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Nella Larsen and Alain Locke. It also considers the legacy of the war for African Americans as represented in film, photography and anthropology.

Author : Daphne Lamothe
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,9 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 : Mary M. Jefferson,Mary M. Jefferson and Mylia Tiye Mal Jaza
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 46,8 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

Author : Gabriel A. Briggs
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813574806

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The New Negro in the Old South by Gabriel A. Briggs Pdf

Standard narratives of early twentieth-century African American history credit the Great Migration of southern blacks to northern metropolises for the emergence of the New Negro, an educated, upwardly mobile sophisticate very different from his forebears. Yet this conventional history overlooks the cultural accomplishments of an earlier generation, in the black communities that flourished within southern cities immediately after Reconstruction. In this groundbreaking historical study, Gabriel A. Briggs makes the compelling case that the New Negro first emerged long before the Great Migration to the North. The New Negro in the Old South reconstructs the vibrant black community that developed in Nashville after the Civil War, demonstrating how it played a pivotal role in shaping the economic, intellectual, social, and political lives of African Americans in subsequent decades. Drawing from extensive archival research, Briggs investigates what made Nashville so unique and reveals how it served as a formative environment for major black intellectuals like Sutton Griggs and W.E.B. Du Bois. The New Negro in the Old South makes the past come alive as it vividly recounts little-remembered episodes in black history, from the migration of Colored Infantry veterans in the late 1860s to the Fisk University protests of 1925. Along the way, it gives readers a new appreciation for the sophistication, determination, and bravery of African Americans in the decades between the Civil War and the Harlem Renaissance.