The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader

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ISBN: 9780140170368 | 0140170367
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Copyright: 6/1/1995

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Gathering a representative sampling of the New Negro Movement's most important figures, and providing substantial introductory essays, headnotes, and brief biographical notes, Lewis' volume-organized chronologically-includes the poetry and prose of Sterling Brown, Countee Cullen, W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson, and others.

Introduction

xiii

Chronology

xliii

Part I. Essays and Memoirs

Returning Soldiers

(3)

W. E. B. Du Bois

The Migration of the Talented Tenth

(4)

Carter G. Woodson

Gift of the Black Tropics

(7)

W. A. Domingo

Africa for the Africans

(9)

Marcus Garvey

Liberty Hall Emancipation Day Speech

(3)

On Marcus Garvey

(5)

Mary White Ovington

Black Manhattan

(12)

James Weldon Johnson

The New Negro

(6)

Alain Locke

Jazz at Home

(6)

Joel A. Rogers

Reflections on O'Neill's Plays

(3)

Paul Robeson

The Negro Digs Up His Past

(7)

Arthur A. Schomburg

The Task of Negro Womanhood

(23)

Elise Johnson McDougald

from The Big Sea

Langston Hughes

When the Negro Was in Vogue

(4)

Harlem Literati

(5)

Parties

(5)

The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain

(5)

The Negro-Art Hokum

(4)

George S. Schuyler

Criteria of Negro Art

100

(6)

W. E. B. Du Bois

Critiques of Carl Van Vechten's Nigger Heaven

106

(4)

Du Bois

J. W. Johnson

The Caucasian Storms Harlem

110

(8)

Rudolph Fisher

Aaron Douglas Chats about the Harlem Renaissance

118

(10)

Aaron Douglas

Negro Art and America

128

(6)

Albert C. Barnes

The Negro Takes His Place in American Art

134

(4)

Alain Locke

The Negro Artist and Modern Art

138

(4)

Romare Bearden

from Dust Tracks on a Road

142

(31)

Zora Neale Hurston

from A Long Way from Home

Claude McKay

The Harlem Intelligentsia

157

(4)

The New Negro in Paris

161

(12)

La Bourgeoisie Noire

173

(9)

E. Franklin Frazier

With Langston Hughes in the USSR

182

(8)

Louise Thompson Patterson

Harlem Runs Wild

190

(4)

Claude Mckay

Blueprint for Negro Writing

194

(12)

Richard Wright

The Negro Renaissance and Its Significance

206

(15)

Charles S. Johnson

Part II. Poetry

Song

221

(2)

Gwendolyn Bennett

Hatred

223

(1)

The Day-Breakers

224

(1)

Arna Bontemps

Golgotha Is a Mountain

224

(3)

Southern Road

227

(2)

Sterling Brown

Odyssey of Big Boy

229

(2)

Frankie and Johnny

231

(1)

Ma Rainey

232

(2)

Long Gone

234

(1)

Georgie Grimes

235

(1)

Remembering Nat Turner

236

(2)

The Young Voice Cries

238

(3)

Mae Cowdery

The Wayside Well

241

(1)

Joseph S. Cotter

For a Lady I Know

242

(1)

Countee Cullen

Incident

243

(1)

Harlem Wine

243

(1)

Yet Do I Marvel

244

(1)

Heritage

244

(3)

From the Dark Tower

247

(1)

To a Brown Boy

248

(1)

Tableau

248

(1)

Saturday's Child

249

(1)

Two Poets

250

(1)

To France

250

(1)

Nothing Endures

250

(1)

Requiescam

251

(1)

The Death Bed

252

(2)

Waring Cuney

La Vie C'est la Vie

254

(1)

Jessie Redmon Fauset

Dead Fires

255

(2)

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

257

(1)

Langston Hughes

I, Too

258

(1)

America

258

(2)

The Weary Blues

260

(1)

Jazzonia

261

(1)

Mother to Son

261

(1)

Negro

262

(1)

Mulatto

263

(1)

Elevator Boy

263

(1)

Red Silk Stockings

264

(1)

Ruby Brown

264

(1)

Elderly Race Leaders

265

(1)

Dream Variation

266

(1)

Goodbye, Christ

266

(1)

Advertisement for the Waldorf-Astoria

267

(4)

Children of the Sun

271

(1)

Fenton Johnson

The Banjo Player

272

(1)

Let Me Not Lose My Dream

273

(1)

Georgia Douglas Johnson

Old Black Men

273

(1)

Black Woman

274

(1)

The Heart of a Woman

274

(1)

I Want to Die While You Love Me

275

(1)

My Race

276

(1)

Helene Johnson

A Southern Road

276

(1)

Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem

277

(1)

Poem

277

(2)

The White Witch

279

(2)

James Weldon Johnson

The Color Sergeant

281

(1)

O Black and Unknown Bards

282

(2)

Go Down Death

284

(2)

The Creation

286

(4)

If We Must Die

290

(1)

Claude McKay

Baptism

290

(1)

The White House

291

(1)

The Negro's Friend

291

(1)

On a Primitive Canoe

292

(1)

The Tropics in New York

292

(1)

When Dawn Comes to the City

293

(1)

The Desolate City

294

(2)

The Harlem Dancer

296

(1)

St. Isaac's Church, Petrograd

297

(1)

Barcelona

297

(2)

Lady, Lady

299

(2)

Anne Spencer

Song of the Son

301

(1)

Jean Toomer

Georgia Dusk

302

(1)

The Blue Meridian

303

(8)

Part III. Fiction

from The Emperor Jones

311

(7)

Eugene O'Neill

from Cane

318

(15)

Jean Toomer

Karintha

319

(1)

Fern

319

(4)

Bona and Paul

323

(10)

Birthright

333

(7)

T. S. Stribling

from There Is Confusion

340

(8)

Jessie Redmon Fauset

from Plum Bun

348

(3)

from The Fire in the Flint

351

(12)

Walter White

Wedding Day

363

(32)

Gwendolyn Bennett

from Home to Harlem

Claude McKay

Snowstorm in Pittsburgh

371

(8)

Spring in Harlem

379

(10)

from Banjo

Banjo's Ace of Spades

389

(6)

from Banana Bottom

395

(15)

from Quicksand

410

(50)

Nella Larsen

from Passing

460

(26)

from The Closing Door

486

(15)

Angelina Weld Grimke

The Typewriter

501

(10)

Dorothy West

from The Dark Princess

511

(26)

W. E. B. Du Bois

from The Walls of Jericho

537

(32)

Rudolph Fisher

from Tropic Death

Eric Walrond

The Wharf Rats

549

(9)

The Yellow One

558

(11)

Smoke, Lilies and Jade

569

(16)

Richard Bruce Nugent

Luani of the Jungles

585

(44)

Langston Hughes

from Not Without Laughter

Thursday Afternoon

592

(7)

from The Ways of White Folks

Father and Son

599

(20)

The Blues I'm Playing

619

(10)

Cordelia the Crude

629

(4)

Wallace Thurman

Harlem: A Forum of Negro Life

633

(3)

from The Blacker the Berry...

636

(13)

from Infants of the Spring

649

(6)

from Black No More

655

(12)

George Schuyler

from God Sends Sunday

667

(7)

Arna Bontemps

from Black Thunder

674

(6)

from One Way to Heaven

680

(15)

Countee Cullen

Drenched in Light

695

(8)

Zora Neale Hurston

Color Struck

703

(16)

Jonah's Gourd Vine

719

(10)

from Mule-Bone

729

(10)

Zora Neale Hurston

Langston Hughes

Biographical Notes

739

(29)

Acknowledgments

768

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