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The new negro / edited by Alain Locke ; with a new preface by Robert Hayden.
LIBRA - Rare E185.82 .L75 1968 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Locke, Alain, 1885-1954.
- Series:
- Studies in American Negro life ; 10.
- Studies in American negro life ; 10
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans.
- American literature--African American authors.
- American literature.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (bookplate) (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 452 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : illustrations, music, facsimiles ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- First Atheneum edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Atheneum, 1968.
- Contents:
- Part I : The Negro renaissance
- The new Negro / Alain Locke
- Negro art and America / Albert C. Barnes
- The Negro in American literature / William Stanley Braithwaite
- Negro youth speaks / Alain Locke
- Fiction
- The city of refuge / Rudolph Fisher
- Vestiges / Rudolph Fisher
- Fog / John Matheus
- Carma, from Cane / Jean Toomer
- Fern, from Cane / Jean Toomer
- Spunk / Zora Neale Hurston
- Sahdji / Bruce Nugent
- The palm porch / Eric Walrond
- Poems
- Poems / Countée Cullen
- Poems / Claude McKay
- Poems / Jean Toomer
- The creation / James Weldon Johnson
- Poems / Langston Hughes
- The day-breakers / Arna Bontemps
- Poems / Georgia Johnson
- Lady, lady / Anne Spencer
- The black finger / Angelina Grimke
- Enchantment / Lewis Alexander
- Drama
- The drama of Negro life / Mongomery 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 / 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 / Elsie Johnson McDougald
- Worlds of color : the Negro mind reaches out / W.E.B. DuBois.
- Notes:
- Cover design: Chermayeff & Geismar Associates.
- Publisher's advertisements: [3] pages at end.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-452).
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy has bookplate of Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy has article on Alain Locke from Washington Post Magazine laid in.
- Banks Collection copy is paperback edition with tear in front cover.
- ISBN:
- 0689701284
- 9780689701283
- OCLC:
- 30835762
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