The new Negro aesthetic : selected writings

Harlem.

Enter the new negro.

Youth speaks.

Beauty instead of ashes.

Art or propaganda?

Beauty and the provinces.

Negro in the three Americas.

Paul Laurence Dunbar.

Ethics of culture.

Review of The weary blues.

The new Negro : the life of Alain Locke

The new Negro : readings on race, representation, and African American culture, 1892-1938

The Negro in drama / Reflections on O'Neill's plays / The drama of Negro life / The gift of laughter / Same old blues / The drama of Negro life / The Negro in the field of drama / Has the Negro a place in the theatre? / A criticism of the Negro drama as it relates to the Negro dramatist and artist / From Black Manhattan / The Negro theatre--a dodo bird / A note on African art ; The American Negro as artist ; African art : classic style / Henry Ossawa Tanner / African plastic in contemporary art / The Negro artist and modern art

The new Negro / An appeal to the king / Afro-American education / Heroes and martyrs / The club movement among colored women of America ; The intellectual progress of the colored women of the United States since the Emancipation Proclamation / Rough sketches : a study of the features of the new Negro woman ; Rough sketches : the new negro man / An ostracised race in ferment : the conflict of Negro parties and Negro leaders over methods of dealing with their own problem / The new Negro / Returning soldiers / The new Negro and the U.N.I.A. / As to `The new Negro' / The new Negro / The new politics ; Education and the race / The new Negro ; Sterling Brown : the new Negro folk-poet / The new Negro Hokum / Who is the new Negro, and why? / The new Negro as revealed in his poetry ; La Bourgeoisie Noire E. Franklin Frazier / The new Negro in Paris / The rise of the Black internationale / One phase of American literature / [Negro in literature] / The Negro in books / The Negro in literature / The Negro in art : how shall he be portrayed / Some aspects of the Negro interpreted in contemporary American and European literature / The Negro in recent American literature

The younger literary movement / Negro youth speaks / Uncle Tom's mansion / The Aframerican : new style / The Negro renaissance / The Negro renaissance / The Negro literary renaissance / The Negro 'renaissance' / The Negro Renaissance / Our Negro 'intellectuals' / For a Negro magazine / Art and propaganda / Propaganda in the theatre / Criteria of Negro art / Art or propaganda? / Propaganda--or poetry? -- Blueprint for Negro writing

Afro-American women and their work / The value of race literature / The writing of a novel / The Negro in literature and art / Negro literature for Negro pupils / Negro race consciousness as reflected in race literature / Colored authors and their contributions to the world's literature / A point of view (an opportunity dinner reaction) / The Negro digs up his past / A note on the sociology of Negro literature / Negro art, past and present / Survey of Negro literature, 1760-1926 / Race prejudice and the Negro artist / Negro literature / Characteristics of Negro expression / The Negro genius

On a certain condescension in white publishers / The Negro audience / Negro authors must eat / The dilemma of the Negro author ; Negro authors and white publishers / Our literary audience / A Negro writer to his critics / Problems facing the Negro writer today / Some contemporary poets of the Negro race / Dunbar's poetry in literary English / The Negro in poetry / Old school of Negro 'critics' hard on Paul Laurence Dunbar / Negro poets and their poetry / The Negro poets of the United States / Mr. Garvey as a poet

Negro music / The sorrow songs / Negro folk song / The Negro spirituals / The Negro spirituals and American art / Self-portraiture and social criticism in Negro folk-song / Spirituals and neo-spirituals / Whence comes jass? / That mysterious 'jazz' / Jazzing away prejudice ; Where The etude stands on jazz / Jazz at home / From the appeal of jazz / Hot jazz / From Swing that music

The Cambridge companion to the Harlem Renaissance

Companion to the Harlem Renaissance

Foundations of the Harlem Renaissance. The New Negro as citizen / The Renaissance and the Vogue / International contexts of the Negro Renaissance / Major Authors and Texts. Negro drama and the Harlem Renaissance / Jean Toomer and the Avant-Garde / "To Tell the Truth About Us": the fictions and non-fictions of Jessie Fauset and Walter White / African American folk roots and Harlem Renaissance poetry / Lyric stars: Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes / "Perhaps Buddha Is a Woman": Women's poetry in the Harlem Renaissance / Transgressive sexuality and the literature of the Harlem Renaissance / Sexual desire, modernity and modernism in the fiction of Nella Larsen and Rudolph Fisher / Banjo meets the Dark Princess: Claude McKay, W. E. B. Du Bois, and the transnational novel of the Harlem Renaissance / The Caribbean voices of Claude McKay and Eric Walrond / George Schuyler and Wallace Thurman: two satirists of the Harlem Renaissance / Zora Neale Hurston, folk performance, and the "Margarine Negro" / The Post-Renaissance. "The Aftermath": the reputation of the Harlem Renaisance twenty years later

The Norton anthology of African American literature

Were you there when they crucified my Lord? ; City called heaven ; God's a-gonna trouble the water ; Walk together children ; I know moon-rise ; I'm a-rollin' ; I been rebuked and I been scorned ; Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel? ; Soon I will be done ; No more auction block ; Swing low, sweet chariot ; Steal away to Jesus ; Go down, Moses ; Been in the storm so long ; Oh, freedom! -- This little light of mine ; Down by the riverside ; Freedom in the air ; Take my hand, precious Lord ; Peace be still ; Stand by me -- Yellow dog blues ; St. Louis blues ; Beale Street blues ; Down-hearted blues ; See, see rider ; Prove it on me blues ; Gulf Coast blues ; Trouble in mind ; Backwater blues ; In the house blues ; How long blues ; Hellhound on my trail ; It's a low down dirty shame ; Good morning, blues ; Sent for you yesterday ; Going to Chicago blues ; Fine and mellow ; Hoochie coochie ; Sunnyland.

We raise de wheat ; Me and my captain ; Promises of freedom ; Jack and Dinah want freedom ; Run, nigger, run ; Learn to count ; Another man done gone ; You may go but this will bring you back -- Poor Lazarus ; The signifying monkey ; Wild Negro Bill ; John Henry ; Frankie and Johnny ; Railroad Bill ; Stackolee ; Sinking of the Titanic ; Shine and the Titanic -- Pick a bale of cotton ; Go down, old Hannah ; Can't you line it?

(What did I do to be so) black and blue / It don't mean a thing (if it ain't got that swing) / Parker's mood

The revolution will not be televised / The message / Don't believe the hype / The evil that men do

God -- The Eagle stirreth her nest / Faith hasn't got no eyes / I have a dream ; I've been to the mountaintop / The ballot or the bullet

All God's chillen had wings ; Big talk ; Deer hunting story ; How to write a letter ; "'Member youse a nigger" ; "Ah'll beatcher makin' money" ; Why the sister in black works hardest ; Why women always take advantage of men ; "De reason niggers is working so hard" ; The ventriloquist ; You talk too much, anyhow ; The king buzzard ; A flying fool ; Bur Rabbit in Red Hill churchyard ; Brer Rabbit tricks Brer Fox again ; The wonderful tar-baby story ; How Mr. Rabbit was too sharp for Mr. Fox ; The awful fate of Mr. Wolf ; What the rabbit learned.

Bars fight / The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, or, Gustavus Vassa, the African, written by himself. Volume 1. Chapter I ; Chapter II ; from Chapter III ; from Chapter IV / Poems on various subjects, religious and moral. Preface ; Letter sent by the author's master to the publisher ; To the publick / To Mæcenas ; To the University of Cambridge, in New-England ; On being brought from Africa to America ; On the death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, 1770 ; To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth ; On imagination ; To S.M., a young African painter, on seeing his works ; To Samson Occom ; To his excellency General Washington / David Walker's appeal in four articles; together with a preamble, to the coloured citizens of the world. Preamble ; Article I : our wretchedness in consequence of slavery / The lover's farewell ; On hearing of the intention of a gentleman to purchase the poet's freedom ; Division of an estate ; The creditor to his proud debtor ; George Moses Horton, myself

Ar'n't I a woman? speech to the Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, 1851 ; from The Anti-slavery bugle, June 21, 1851 ; from The narrative of Sojourner Truth, 1878 / Religion and the pure principles of morality, the sure foundation on which we must build. Introduction / Lecture delivered at the Franklin Hall / Incidents in the life of a slave girl. Preface ; Childhood ; The new master and mistress ; The trials of girlhood ; A perilous passage in the slave girl's life ; Another link to life ; The flight ; The loophole of retreat ; Preparations for escape ; The confession ; The Fugitive Slave Law ; Free at last / Narrative of William W. Brown, a fugitive slave. Chapter V ; from Chapter VI / Clotel, or, The president's daughter. The Negro sale ; Going to the South ; The quadroon's home ; To-day a mistress, tomorrow a slave ; Escape of Clotel / Lines suggested on reading "An appeal to Christian women of the South, " by A.E. Grimke / An address to the slaves of the United States of America / The mulatto / Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave, written by himself / My bondage and my freedom. Introduced to the abolitionists ; Twenty-one months in Great Brittain

from What to the slave is the Fourth of July? : an address delivered in Rochester, New York, on 5 July 1852 / Life and times of Frederick Douglass. Second part. Weighed in the balance / Life and times of Frederick Douglass. Third part. Later life / America ; Yes! strike again that sounding string ; Self-reliance / Ethiopia ; Eliza Harris ; The slave mother ; Vashti ; Bury me in a free land ; Aunt Chloe's politics ; Learning to read ; A double standard ; Songs for the people ; An appeal to my country women ; The two offers ; Our greatest want / Fancy etchings. Enthusiasm and lofty aspirations ; Dangerous economies / Woman's political future / Our nig, or, sketches from the life of a free black, in a two-story white house, north. Preface ; Mag Smith, my mother ; My father's death ; A new home for me ; Visitor and departure ; Perplexities, another death ; The winding up of the matter

A parting hymn / Journals. from Journal one ; from Journal three / Up from slavery. A slave among slaves ; Boyhood days ; The struggle for an education ; The Atlanta Exposition address / The goopherd grapevine ; The passing of Grandison ; The wife of his youth / Womanhood a vital element in the regeneration and progress of a race / Contending forces. The sewing-circle ; Will Smith's defense of his race / Famous men of the Negro race. Booker T. Washington / Famous women of the Negro race. Literary workers : Frances E.W. Harper / Letter from Cordelia A. Condict and Pauline Hopkins's reply : March 1903 / A red record. The case stated ; The remedy / A litany of Atlanta ; The song of the smoke ; The souls of black folk ; The damnation of women ; Criteria of Negro art ; Two novels

The snapping of the bow ; Me 'n' Dunbar ; Paul Laurence Dunbar ; At the closed gate of justice ; An indignation dinner / Sence you went away ; Lift ev'ry voice and sing ; O black and unknown bards ; Fifty years ; Brothers ; The creation ; My city ; The autobiography of an ex-colored man / The book of American Negro poetry. Preface / Ode to Ethiopia ; Worn out ; A Negro love song ; The colored soldiers ; An ante-bellum sermon ; Ere sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes ; Not they who soar ; When Malindy sings ; We wear the mask ; Little brown baby ; Her thought and his ; A cabin tale ; Sympathy ; Dinah kneading dough ; The haunted oak ; Douglass ; Philosophy ; Black Samson of Brandywine ; The poet ; The Fourth of July and race outrages / The hindered hand, or, The reign of the repressionist. The fugitives flee again ; The blaze / Violets ; I sit and sew ; April is on the way ; Violets / The watchers ; The house of falling leaves ; Sic vita ; Turn me to my yellow leaves ; Quiet has a hidden sound / Singing hallelujia ; Song of the whirlwind ; My God in heaven said to me ; The lonely mother ; Tired ; The scarlet woman

The Negro digs up his past / A winter twilight ; The black finger ; For the candle light ; When the green lies over the earth ; Tenebris / Before the feast of Shushan ; Dunbar ; At the carnival ; Lady, lady ; Letter to my sister ; The wife-woman / Plum bun : a novel without a moral. from Home. Black Philadelphia ; Sundays / The new Negro / The heart of a woman ; Youth ; My little dreams ; Lost illusions ; I want to die while you love me / Africa for the Africans ; The future as I see it / Harlem shadows ; If we must die ; To the white fiends ; Africa ; America ; My mother ; Enslaved ; The White House ; Outcast ; St. Isaac's Church, Petrograd / Home to Harlem. He also loved / Harlem runs wild / Sweat ; How it feels to be colored me ; The gilded six-bits ; Characteristics of Negro expression / Mules and men. Negro folklore / Their eyes were watching God. The return ; Pear tree / Dust tracks on a road. Research / Quicksand. To Denmark ; New life ; Talk of marriage ; Proposal ; Good-bye / Cane / The Negro-art hokum / The city of refuge ; The Caucasian storms Harlem

The wharf rats / On being young, a woman, and colored / Odyssey of Big Boy ; Long gone ; Southern road ; Strong men ; Memphis blues ; Slim Greer ; Tin roof blues ; Ma Rainey ; Cabaret ; Sporting Beasley ; Sam Smiley / Heritage ; To a dark girl ; Sonnet, 2 ; Hatred / Infants of the spring. Harlem salon / Golgotha is a mountain ; A black man talks of reaping ; Nocturne at Bethesda ; Southern mansion ; Miracles ; A summer tragedy / The Negro speaks of rivers ; Mother to son ; Danse africaine ; Jazzonia ; When Sue wears red ; Dream variations ; The weary blues ; I too ; A house in Taos ; Homesick blues ; Po' boy blues ; Gypsy man ; Lament over love ; Red silk stockings ; Bad man ; Song for a dark girl ; Gal's cry for a dying lover ; Hard daddy ; Sylvester's dying bed ; Ballad of the landlord ; Juke box love song ; Dream boogie ; Harlem ; Motto ; The Negro artist and the racial mountain ; The blues I'm playing / The big sea. When the Negro was in vogue ; Harlem literati ; Downtown / The best of Simple. Feet live their own life ; A toast to Harlem ; Jealousy / Yet do I marvel ; Tableau ; Incident ; Saturday's child ; The shroud of color ; Heritage ; To John Keats, poet at spring time ; From the dark tower / Poem ; Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem ; Remember not ; Invocation

An ex-judge at the bar ; Dark symphony ; A legend of Versailles ; Libretto for the Republic of Liberia ; The birth of John Henry ; Satchmo / The living is easy. Cleo ; Cleo's high jinks ; Cleo goes north / Blueprint for Negro writing ; The ethics of living Jim Crow, an autobiographical sketch ; Long black song ; The man who lived underground / Black boy. Booklist ; Chicago / Salute to the passing / Like a winding sheet / The street. The apartment / The diver ; Homage to the empress of the blues ; Middle passage ; O Daedalus, fly away home ; Runagate runagate ; Frederick Douglass ; A ballad of remembrance ; Mourning poem for the Queen of Sunday ; Soledad ; El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz ; A letter from Phillis Wheatley / Invisible man. Battle royal ; Epilogue / Change the joke and slip the yoke ; The world and the jug

For my people ; Poppa chicken ; For Malcolm X ; Prophets for a new day / Kitchenette building ; The mother ; A song in the front yard ; Sadie and Maud ; The vacant lot ; The preacher : ruminates behind the sermon ; The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith ; Maxie Allen ; The rites for Cousin Vit ; The children of the poor ; The lovers of the poor ; We real cool ; The Chicago Defender sends a man to Little Rock ; A lovely love ; Malcolm X ; Two dedications ; Riot ; The third sermon on the Warpland ; Young heroes ; When you have forgotten Sunday : the love story ; Maud Martha / Everybody's protest novel ; Many thousands gone ; Stranger in the village ; Notes of a native son ; Sonny's blues / Walking Parker home ; Grandfather was queer, too ; Jail poems ; Unanimity has been achieved, not a dot less for its accidentalness ; War memoir : jazz, don't listen to it at your own risk / A raisin in the sun

Status symbol ; I am a black woman / Towards a black aesthetic / The autobiography of Malcolm X. Saved / The man who cried I am. In an outdoor cafe ; Memories, Margrit, and morphine ; Picture of the writer / Letter from Birmingham jail / The idea of ancestry ; Hard rock returns to prison from the hospital for the criminal insane ; For black poets who think of suicide / The black aesthetic. Introduction / Preface to a twenty volume suicide note ; In memory of radio ; A poem for black hearts ; I don't love you ; Three movements and a coda ; SOS ; Black art ; The invention of comics ; Dutchman ; The revolutionary theatre

Homecoming ; Poem at thirty ; For our lady ; Summer words of a sistuh addict / A blues book for blue black magical women. Part three. Present / Goin' a buffalo : a tragifantasy / Soul on ice. The primeval mitosis / Did John's music kill him? / How long has Trane been gone / The black arts movement / Black art : mute matter given force and function / Back again, home ; Introduction : to Think black ; The long reality ; Malcolm spoke/who listened? ; A poem to complement other poems / For Saundra ; Beautiful black men ; Nikki-Rosa / A solo song : for Doc / In Texas grass ; Conversation overheard ; Impressions/of Chicago, for Howlin' Wolf / Jesus was crucified ; It is deep ; For sistuhs wearin' straight hair

Train whistle guitar. History lessons / Still I rise ; My Arkansas / I know why the caged bird sings. Mrs. Flowers ; "Mam" / Reena ; To Da-duh, in memoriam ; The making of a writier : from the poets in the kitchen / A movie star has to star in black and white / Sula / The sky is gray / Father Son and Holy Ghost ; The winds of Orisha ; Coal ; Now that I am forever with child ; A litany for survival ; The evening news ; Poetry is not a luxury / Pike Street bus ; The Griots who know Brer Fox ; Tapestries ; Caledonia / The bodies broken on ; The lost baby poem ; Prayer ; Malcolm ; Kali ; If mama/could see ; Homage to my hips ; What spells raccoon to me ; 1. At Jonestown ; A woman who loves ; Wishes for sons ; Move / In memoriam : Martin Luther King Jr. ; I must become a menace to my enemies ; Poem about my rights ; Poem for Guatemala ; The female and the silence of a man ; Intifada ; A new politics of sexuality / Swallow the lake ; Round midnight ; On watching a caterpillar become a butterfly ; Chicago heat

There is a tree more ancient than Eden. The epistle of Sweetie Reed / Dear John, dear Coltrane ; Deathwatch ; Here where Coltrane is ; Br'er Sterling and the rocker ; Grandfather ; "Goin' to the territory" ; In Hayden's collage ; The ghost of soul-making / I am a cowboy in the boat of Ra ; Railroad Bill, a conjure man ; Dualism : in Ralph Elliison's Invisible man ; Chattanooga ; Oakland blues ; Neo-HooDoo manifesto / Mumbo jumbo. Chapters 1-2 / Raymond's run / A dance for Ma Rainey ; Conjugal visits / The seduction of light. Ben Franklin ; Secondhand business / Brothers and keepers. Robby's version / Damballah / Atlantis : model 1924 (d) / The peacock poems : 1 ; I want Aretha to set this to music ; Tell Martha not to moan / Women ; Outcast ; On stripping bark from myself ; "Good night, Willie Lee, I'll see you in the morning" ; In search of our mothers' gardens ; Everyday use ; Advancing Luna, and Ida B. Wells / The color purple. God love all them feelings / Fences / Within the veil ; Columba

Emmett Till ; Today I am a homicide in the north of the city ; Be quiet, go away ; At the record hop ; American sonnet (10) ; Bedtime story ; Mastectomy / Bloodchild / February in Sydney ; Facing it ; Sunday afternoons ; Banking potatoes ; Birds on a powerline / Falso brilhante ; Song of the Andoumboulou : 8 / Djbot Baghostu's run. 26.IX.81 / The education of Mingo / from For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf ; Nappy edges ; Bocas : a daughter's geography / Annie John. The circling hand / The Chaneysville incident. Old Jack / The women of Brewster Place. The two / Quilting on the rebound / David Walker (1785-1830) ; Parsley ; Receiving the stigmata ; from Thomas and Beulah ; The event ; Motherhood ; Daystar ; The Oriental ballerina ; Pastoral ; from Mother love ; Persephone abducted ; Statistic : the witness ; Mother love ; Demeter mourning ; History ; Demeter's prayer to Hades / Devil in a blue dress. DeWitt Albright ; Joppy ; Daphne Monet / Conditions. XXI ; XXII ; XXIV