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The new Negro : an interpretation / edited by Alain Locke ; book decoration and portraits by Winold Reiss.
1925
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- People
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- Related Name
- Albert & Charles Boni
- Language
- English
- Notes
- Includes illustrations by Aaron Douglas.
- Binding Note
- Princeton copy 2 In original dust jacket designed by Winold Reiss.
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Descriptive Information
- Title
- The new Negro : an interpretation / edited by Alain Locke ; book decoration and portraits by Winold Reiss.
- Call Number
- 3588.5918
- E185.82 .L75 1925
- N-004146
- Identifier
- ark:/88435/dc44558v21m
- Language
- English
- Date Created
- 1925
- Format
- Book
- Extent
- xviii, 446 pages, 17 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, music, portraits (some color) ; 23 cm
- Provenance
- Princeton copy 1 Beach copy: Presentation copy to Sylvia Beach with inscription by the author.
- Princeton copy 2 With contemporary ink gift inscription on half-title page: "To A. A. Smith 'Congratulations' from C. W. Hankins 8/1/26."
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Contents
- pt. 1, Negro renaissance: New Negro / A. Locke.
- Negro art and America / Albert C. Barnes.
- Negro in American literature / William Stanley Braithwaite.
- Negro youth speaks / A. Locke. Fiction: City of refuge ; Vestiges / Rudolph Fisher. Fog / John Matheus. Carma, from Cane ; Fern, from Cane / Jean Toomer. Spunk / Zora Neale Hurston. Sahdju / Bruce Nugent. Palm porch / Eric Walrond. Poetry / by Countée Cullen, Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Anne Spencer, Angelina Grimke, Lewis Alexander. Drama: Drama of Negro life / Montgomery Gregory. Gift of laughter / Jessie Fauset. Compromise (a folk tale) / Willis Richardson. Music: Negro spirituals / A. Locke. Negro dancers / Claude McKay. Jazz at home / J.A. Rogers. Jazzonia ; Nude young dancer / Langston Hughes. 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. Legacy of the ancestral arts / A. Locke.
- pt. 2., New Negro in a New World: Negro pioneers / Paul U. Kellogg.
- New frontage on American life / Charles S. Johnson.
- New scene: Harlem, the culture capital / James Weldon Johnson. Howard, the National Negro University / Kelly Miller. Hampton-Tuskegee, missioners of the mass / Robert R. Moton. Durham, capital of the Black middle class / E. Franklin Frazier. Gift of the Black Tropics / W.A. Domingo.
- Negro and the American tradition: Negro's Americanism / Melville J. Herskovits. Paradox of color / Walter White. Task of Negro womanhood / Elise Johnson McDougald.
- Worlds of color: Negro mind reaches out / W.E.B. DuBois.
- Bibliography: Who's who of the contributors. Selected list of Negro Americana and Africana. Negro in literature. Negro drama. Negro music. Negro folk lore. Negro race problem.
- Notes
- Includes illustrations by Aaron Douglas.
- Binding Note
- Princeton copy 2 In original dust jacket designed by Winold Reiss.
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 2
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Black History and Culture Evergreen Initiative
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/13efc78d-0f74-4cab-a9e7-6bba164a7c61/manifest