Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer edits a collection of Alain Locke's influential essays on the importance of the Black artist and the Black imagination\nA Penguin Classic\nFor months, the philosopher Alain Locke wrestled with the idea of the Negro as America's most vexing problem. He asked how shall Negroes think of themselves as he considered the new crop of poets, novelists, and short story writers who, in 1924, wrote about their experiences as Black people in America. He did not want to frame Harlem and Black writing as yet another protest against racism, nor did he want to focus on the sociological perspective on the "Negro problem" and Harlem as a site of crime, poverty, and dysfunction. He wanted to find new language and a new way for Black people to think of themselves. The essays and articles collected in this volume, by Locke's Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer, are the result of that new attitude and the struggle to instill the New Negro aesthetics, as Stewart calls it here, into the mind of the twentieth century. To be a New Negro poet, novelist, actor, musician, dancer, or filmmaker was to commit oneself to an arc of self-discovery of what and who the Negro was—would be—without fear that one would disappoint the white or Black bystander. In committing to that path, Locke asserted, one would uncover a "being-in-the-world" that was rich and bountiful in its creative possibilities, if Black people could turn off the noise of racism and see themselves for who they really are: a world of creative people who have transformed, powerfully and perpetually, the culture of wherever history or social forces landed them.

The New Negro Aesthetic: Selected Writings

Biographies & Memoirs

Locke, Alain

Community & Culture

Penguin Classics

2015 Reprint of 1925 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Alain Locke is the acknowledged father of the Harlem Renaissance. A highly educated man and the first African to be awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, Locke served as the bridge between a burgeoning literary expression centered in Harlem and the mainstay literary world. Published in 1925, the "New Negro" is combines an anthology of poems, stories and essays by black luminaries of the period, along with new essays by prominent scholars and specialists. "The New Negro" was a symbol of the literary fruit of the great migration of blacks from the rural south to the urban North. Locke was certain that Harlem was fast becoming a new mecca of black artistry and one of the world's cultural capitals. Contents: 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.

New Negro: An Interpretation

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Johnson Reprint Corp

The Negro and His Music-Negro Art: Past and Present

Arts & Photography

Music

Ayer Co. Pub

The New Negro (Black Narratives)

The New Negro (1925) is an anthology by Alain Locke. Expanded from a March issue of Survey Graphic magazine, The New Negro compiles writing from such figures as Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Toomer, and Locke himself. Recognized as a foundational text of the Harlem Renaissance, the collection is organized around Locke's writing on the function of art in reorganizing the conception of African American life and culture. Through self-understanding, creation, and independence, Locke's New Negro came to represent a break from an inhumane past, a means toward meaningful change for a people held down for far too long. "[F]or generations in the mind of America, the Negro has been more of a formula than a human being--a something to be argued about, condemned or defended, to be 'kept down,' or 'in his place,' or 'helped up,' to be worried with or worried over, harassed or patronized, a social bogey or a social burden." Identifying the representation of black Americans in the national imaginary as oppressive in nature, Locke suggests a way forward through his theory of the New Negro, who "wishes to be known for what he is, even in his faults and shortcomings, and scorns a craven and precarious survival at the price of seeming to be what he is not." Throughout The New Negro, leading artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance offer their unique visions of who and what they are; voicing their concerns, portraying injustice, and illuminating the black experience, they provide a holistic vision of self-expression in all of its colors and forms. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Alain Locke's The New Negro is a classic of African American literature reimagined for modern readers.

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

Mint Editions

The New Negro (1925) is an anthology by Alain Locke. Expanded from a March issue of Survey Graphic magazine, The New Negro compiles writing from such figures as Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Toomer, and Locke himself. Recognized as a foundational text of the Harlem Renaissance, the collection is organized around Locke’s writing on the function of art in reorganizing the conception of African American life and culture. Through self-understanding, creation, and independence, Locke’s New Negro came to represent a break from an inhumane past, a means toward meaningful change for a people held down for far too long. 
“[F]or generations in the mind of America, the Negro has been more of a formula than a human being―a something to be argued about, condemned or defended, to be ‘kept down,’ or ‘in his place,’ or ‘helped up,’ to be worried with or worried over, harassed or patronized, a social bogey or a social burden.” Identifying the representation of black Americans in the national imaginary as oppressive in nature, Locke suggests a way forward through his theory of the New Negro, who “wishes to be known for what he is, even in his faults and shortcomings, and scorns a craven and precarious survival at the price of seeming to be what he is not.” Throughout The New Negro, leading artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance offer their unique visions of who and what they are; voicing their concerns, portraying injustice, and illuminating the black experience, they provide a holistic vision of self-expression in all of its colors and forms. 
With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Alain Locke’s The New Negro is a classic of African American literature reimagined for modern readers.\nFrom the Back Cover\n“[F]or generations in the mind of America, the Negro has been more of a formula than a human being.” In The New Negro, Alain Locke presents an antidote for this lack of representation and understanding. In his own words and through the poems, stories, and essays of his distinguished contemporaries, Locke envisions a brighter future for generations to come.

2015 Reprint of 1925 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Alain Locke is the acknowledged father of the Harlem Renaissance. A highly educated man and the first African to be awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, Locke served as the bridge between a burgeoning literary expression centered in Harlem and the mainstay literary world. Published in 1925, the "New Negro" is combines an anthology of poems, stories and essays by black luminaries of the period, along with new essays by prominent scholars and specialists. "The New Negro" was a symbol of the literary fruit of the great migration of blacks from the rural south to the urban North. Locke was certain that Harlem was fast becoming a new mecca of black artistry and one of the world's cultural capitals. Contents: 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.

The New Negro: An Interpretation

History & Criticism

Martino Fine Books

2021 Reprint of the 1940 Edition. Profusely Illustrated. Facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. A major document of African American Art up to 1940. With copious notes and artist biographies. Illustrated by Plates of the works of Juan Pareja -- Sebastian Gomez -- Joshua Johnston -- Robert S. Duncanson -- Edward M. Bannister -- Edmonia Lewis -- William Simpson -- Henry Ossawa Tanner -- William A. Harper -- Edwin A. Harleston -- Wm. Edouard Scott -- William M. Farrow -- Pastor Argudin y Pedroso -- Henry B. Jones -- Meta Warrick Fuller -- May Howard Jackson -- Sargent Johnson -- N. Elizabeth Prophet -- Laura Wheeler Waring -- John W. Hardrick -- Archibald J. Motley -- Palmer Hayden -- William A. Cooper -- Allan R. Freelon -- Alexander A. Smith -- Malvin Gray Johnson -- Aaron Douglas -- Hale A. Woodruff -- Dox Thrash -- Horace Pippin -- William Edmonson -- Leslie G. Bolling -- Augusta Savage -- Richmond Barthe -- Ronald Moody -- Charles Alston -- Francisco Lord. Teodoro Ramos-Blanco -- Lillian Dorsey -- Joseph Delaney -- Ramon Loy -- Alberto Pena -- Elton Fax -- James A. Porter -- Florence Purviance -- Lois Mailou Jones -- Robert S. Pious -- Earle W. Richardson -- Charles Alston -- Romare Bearden -- Rex Gorleigh -- William H. Johnson -- Allan R. Crite -- Samuel J. Brown -- James Lesesne Wells -- Ernest Crichlow -- Georgette Seabrook -- Charles Sebree -- Vertis Hayes -- Gwendolyn Bennett -- Charles Sallee -- John C. Lutz -- Edward L. Loper -- John C. Lutz -- Ronald Jospeh -- Wm. Carter -- Norman Lewis -- Albert Wells -- Earl Walker -- Robert Blackburn -- Charles Davis -- Walter Ellison -- Henry Avery -- Eldzier Cortor -- Elba Lightfoot -- Samuel Countee -- Robert Neal -- Lamar Weaver -- Wm. Hayden -- Fred Flemister -- John Carlis -- Elizabeth Catlett -- Wm. Artis -- Joseph Kersey -- Henry Bannarn -- Elmer Simms Campbell -- Bernard Goss -- Wilmer Jennings -- Ernest Crichlow -- Hughie Lee-Smith -- Charles White -- Marvin Smith -- Wm. Carter -- Hale Woodruff -- Clarence Lawson -- William E. Smith -- Charles Alston -- Hughie Lee-Smith -- Jacob Lawrence.

The Negro in Art: A Pictorial Record of the Negro Artist and of the Negro Theme in Art

United States

Independently published

THE NEW NEGRO: VOICES OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE EDITED BY ALAIN LOCKE ORIGINAL PAPERBACK

The Carolina Magazine: "Negro Number" May 1928 (Subscription to the Harlem Renaissance)

HUGHES, Langston

Johnson, Georgia Douglas

Fauset, Jessie Redmon

Johnson, Charles S.

Bontemps, Arna

Dunbar-Nelson, Alice

Grimke, Angelina W.

Levine, Karen Rae

Cuney, Waring

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