Table of Contents
Foreword xiii
Acknowledgments xvii
Part I The Negro Renaissance
The New Negro Alain Locke 3
Negro Art and America Albert C. Barnes 16
The Negro in American Literature William Stanley Braithwaite 23
Negro Youth Speaks Alain Locke 38
Fiction:
The City of Refuge Rudolph Fisher 45
Vestiges Rudolph Fisher 60
Fog John Matheus 69
Carma, from Cane Jean Toomer 79
Fern, from Cane Jean Toomer 82
Spunk Zora Neale Hurston 88
Sahdji Bruce Nugent 95
The Palm Porch Eric Walrond 97
Poetry:
Poems Countee Cullen 108
Poems Claude McKay 117
Poems Jean Toomer 122
The Creation James Weldon Johnson 124
Poems Langston Hughes 127
Poems Georgia Douglas Johnson 136
Lady, Lady Anne Spencer 140
The Black Finger Angelina Grimke 141
Enchantment Lewis Alexander 142
Drama:
The Drama of Negro Life Montgomery Gregory 144
The Gift of Laughter Jessie Fauset 151
Compromise (A Folk Play) Willis Richardson 159
Music:
The Negro Spirituals Alain Locke 186
Negro Dancers Claude McKay 201
Jazz at Home J.A.Rogers 203
Jazzonia Langston Hughes 211
Nude Young Dancer Langston Hughes 212
The Negro Digs Up His Past Arthur A. Schomburg 214
American Negro Folk Literature Arthur Huff Fauset 221
T'appin Told Cugo Lewis 228
B'rer Rabbit Fools Buzzard 231
Heritage Countee Cullen 233
The Legacy of the Ancestral Arts Alain Locke 237
Part II The New Negro in a New World
The Negro Pioneers Paul U. Kellogg 253
The New Frontage on American Life Charles S. Johnson 259
The New Scene:
Harlem: The Culture Capital James Weldon Johnson 278
Howard: The National Negro University Kelly Miller 288
Hampton-Tuskegee: Missioners of the Masses Robert R. Moton 298
Durham: Capital of the Black Middle Class E. Fanklin Frazier 308
Gift of the Black Tropics W.A. Domingo 315
The Negro and The American Tradition:
The Negro's Americanism Melville J. Herskovits 324
The Paradox of Color Walter White 331
The Task of Negro Womanhood Elise Johnson McDougald 338
Worlds of Color:
The Negro Mind Reaches Out W.E.B. DuBois 352
Bibliography
Who's Who of the Contributors 383
A Select List of Negro-Americana and Africana 391
The Negro in Literature 397
Negro Drama 403
Negro Music: A Bibliography 406
A Selected List of Modern Music, Influenced by American Negro Themes or Idioms 413
Negro Folk Lore 416
The Negro Race Problems 425
