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 ...
During the 1920s and 1930s, black artists and writers achieved something totally unprecedented: they created a new image of African Americans that truly reflected their times as well as their...
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 ...
Using African American published texts, American archives and unpublished writings, and contemporaneous European discourses, this book focuses both on the canonical figures of the New Negro Movement and African American culture, such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 ...
The book offers students a critical introduction to Du Bois, as well as opening new pathways into the further study of his remarkable career.
In this volume, the Harlem Renaissance “escapes from New York” into its proper global context.
The Crusader 2.2 ( October 1919 ) : 9-10 . O'Neill , Eugene . " To Michael Gold . " 2 July 1926. Letter 187 of The Selected Letters of Eugene O'Neill . Ed . Travis Bogard and Jackson R. Bryer . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1988.
It has been estimated that Negroes in Chicago have more than $ 20,000,000 deposited in the various local banks . The resources of two of the colored banks are : the Douglass National , $ 646,536.57 ; Binga State . $ 976 ,940.59 .
Introduction. The New Negro is reading -- Creating critical frameworks: three models for the New Negro Reader -- In search of Black writers (and readers): Crisis's and Opportunity's literary contests -- Beyond the New Negro: artistry, ...
Frederick L. Hoffman wrote in 1896 that African Americans were headed toward extinction because of their inherited “race traits and tendencies.” Even mulattoes were on the way out, since “the mixture of the African with the white race ...