"The New Negro: an Interpretation." Anthology Edited by Alain Locke (1925)
Table of Contents
Part I: The Negro Renaissance
The New Negro Alain Locke 3
Negro Art and America Albert C. Barnes 19
The Negro in American Literature. William Stanley Braithwaite 29
Negro Youth Speaks Alain Locke 47
FICTION
The City of Refuge Rudolph Fisher 57
Vestiges Rudolph Fisher 75
Fog. John Matheus 85
Carma, from Cane Jean Toomer. 96
Fern, from Cane Jean Toomer. 99
Spunk Zora Neale Hurston 105
Sahdji. Bruce Nugent 113
The Palm Porch Eric Walrond 115
POETRY
Poems. Countée Cullen 129
Poems. Claude McKay 133
Poems. Jean Toomer. 136
The Creation James Weldon Johnson 138
Poems. Langston Hughes. 141
The Day-Breakers Arna Bontemps 145
Poems Georgia Johnson. 146
Lady, Lady Anne Spencer 148
The Black Finger . Angelina Grimke 148
Enchantment Lewis Alexander. 149
DRAMA:
The Drama of Negro Life Montgomery Gregory
The Gift of Laughter Jessie Fauset
Compromise (A Folk Play) Willis Richardson
MUSIC:
The Negro Spirituals Alain Locke
Negro Dancers Claude McKay
Jazz at Home J. A. Rogers
Song Gwendolyn B. Bennett
Jazzonia Langston Hughes
Nude Young Dancer Langston Hughes
THE NEGRO DIGS UP HIS PAST Arthur A. Schomburg
American Negro Folk Literature Arthur Huff Fauset
T’appin Told by Cugo Lewis
B’rer Rabbit Fools Buzzard
Heritage Countée Cullen
The Legacy of the Ancestral Arts Alain Locke
PART II: The New Negro in a New World
THE NEGRO PIONEERS Paul U. Kellogg
THE NEW FRONTAGE ON AMERICAN LIFE Charles S. Johnson
The Road Helene Johnson
THE NEW SCENE:
Harlem: the Culture Capital James Weldon Johnson
Howard: The National Negro University Kelly Miller
Hampton-Tuskegee: Missioners of the Masses Robert R. Moton
Durham: Capital of the Black Middle Class E. Franklin Frazier
Gift of the Black Tropics W. A. Domingo
THE NEGRO AND THE AMERICAN TRADITION
The Negro’s Americanism Melville J. Herskovits
The Paradox of Color Walter White
The Task of Negro Womanhood Elise Johnson McDougald
WORLDS OF COLOR:
The Negro Mind Reaches Out W. E. B. DuBois