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CONTENTS
Introduction xiiiChronology xliii
Part I. Essays and Memoirs
W. E. B. Du BOISReturning Soldiers 3
CARTER G. WOODSONThe Migration of the Talented Tenth 6
W. A. DOMINGOGift of the Black Tropics 10
MARCUS GARVEYAfrica for the Africans 17Liberty Hall Emancipation Day Speech 26
MARY WHITE OVINGTONOn Marcus Garvey 29
JAMES WELDON JOHNSONfrom Black Manhattan 34
ALAIN LOCKEThe New Negro 46
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JOEL A. ROGERS
Jazz at Home 52
PAUL ROBESON
Reflections on O’Neill’s Plays 58
ARTHUR A. SCHOMBURG
The Negro Digs Up His Past 61
ELISE JOHNSON McDOUGALD
The Task of Negro Womanhood 68
LANGSTON HUGHES
from The Big Sea
When the Negro Was in Vogue 77Harlem Literati 81
Parties 86
The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain 91
GEORGE S. SCHUYLER
The Negro-Art Hokum 96
W. E. B. Du BOIS
Criteria of Negro Art 100
Du BOIS and J. W. JOHNSON
Critiques of Carl Van Vechten’s Nigger Heaven 106
RUDOLPH FISHER
The Caucasian Storms Harlem 110
AARON DOUGLAS
Aaron Douglas Chats about the Harlem Renaissance 118
ALBERT C. BARNES
Negro Art and America 128
ALAIN LOCKE
The Negro Takes His Place in American Art 134
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ROMÁRÉ BEARDEN
The Negro Artist and Modern Art 138
ZORA NEALE HURSTON
from Dust Tracks on a Road 142
CLAUDE McKAY
from A Long Way from Home
The Harlem Intelligentsia 157
The New Negro in Paris 161
E. FRANKLIN FRAZIER
La Bourgeoisie Noire 173
LOUISE THOMPSON PATTERSON
With Langston Hughes in the USSR 182
CLAUDE McKAY
Harlem Runs Wild 190
RICHARD WRIGHT
Blueprint for Negro Writing 194
CHARLES S. JOHNSON
The Negro Renaissance and Its Significance 206
Part II. Poetry
GWENDOLYN BENNETT
Song 221Hatred 223
ARNA BONTEMPS
The Day-Breakers 224
Golgotha Is a Mountain 224
STERLING BROWN
Southern Road 227
Odyssey of Big Boy 229
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Frankie and Johnny 231
Ma Rainey 232
Long Gone 234
Georgie Grimes 235
Remembering Nat Turner 236
MAE COWDERY
The Young Voice Cries 238
JOSEPH S. COTTER
The Wayside Well 241
COUNTEE CULLEN
For a Lady I Know 242Incident 243
Harlem Wine 243
Yet Do I Marvel 244
Heritage 244From the Dark Tower 247
To a Brown Boy 248Tableau 248
Saturday’s Child 249Two Poets 250
To France 250
Nothing Endures 250
Requiescam 251
WARING CUNEY
The Death Bed 252
JESSIE REDMON FAUSET
La Vie C’est la Vie 254
Dead Fires 255
LANGSTON HUGHES
The Negro Speaks of Rivers 257I, Too 257
America 258
The Weary Blues 260
Jazzonia 261
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Mother to Son 261Negro 262Mulatto 263Elevator Boy 263Red Silk Stockings 264Ruby Brown 264Elderly Race Leaders 265Dream Variation 266Goodbye, Christ 266Advertisement for the Waldorf-Astoria 267
FENTON JOHNSONChildren of the Sun 271The Banjo Player 272
GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSONLet Me Not Lose My Dream 273Old Black Men 273Black Woman 274The Heart of a Woman 274I Want to Die While You Love Me 275
HELENE JOHNSONMy Race 276A Southern Road 276Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem 277Poem 277
JAMES WELDON JOHNSONThe White Witch 279The Color Sergeant 281O Black and Unknown Bards 282Go Down Death 284The Creation 286
CLAUDE McKAYIf We Must Die 290Baptism 290The White House 291
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The Negro’s Friend 291On a Primitive Canoe 292The Tropics in New York 292When Dawn Comes to the City 293The Desolate City 294The Harlem Dancer 296St. Isaac’s Church, Petrograd 297Barcelona 297
ANNE SPENCERLady, Lady 299
JEAN TOOMERSong of the Son 301Georgia Dusk 302The Blue Meridian 303
Part IH. Fiction
EUGENE O’NEILLfrom The Emperor Jones 311
JEAN TOOMERfrom Cane
Karintha 318Fern 319Bona and Paul 323
T. S. STRIBLINGfrom Birthright 333
JESSIE REDMON FAUSETfrom There Is Confusion 340from Plum Bun 348
WALTER WHITEfrom The Fire in the Flint 351
GWENDOLYN BENNETTWedding Day 363
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CLAUDE McKAY
from Home to Harlem
Snowstorm in Pittsburgh 371
Spring in Harlem 379
from Banjo
Banjo’s Ace of Spades 389
from Banana Bottom 395
NELLA LARSEN
from Quicksand 410
from Passing 460
ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE
from The Closing Door 486
DOROTHY WEST
The Typewriter 501
W. E. B. Du BOIS
from The Dark Princess 511
RUDOLPH FISHER
from The Walls of Jericho 537
ERIC WALROND
from Tropic DeathThe Wharf Rats 549
The Yellow One 558
RICHARD BRUCE NUGENT
Smoke, Lilies and Jade 569
LANGSTON HUGHES
Luani of the Jungles 585
from Not Without Laughter
Thursday Afternoon 592
from The Ways of White FolksFather and Son 599
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The Blues I’m Playing 619
WALLACE THURMAN
Cordelia the Crude 629
Harlem: A Forum of Negro Life 633
from The Blacker the Berry . . . 636
from Infants of the Spring 649
GEORGE SCHUYLER
from Black No More 655
ARNA BONTEMPS
from God Sends Sunday 667from Black Thunder 674
COUNTEE CULLEN
from One Way to Heaven 680
ZORA NEALE HURSTON
Drenched in Light 695Color Struck 703
from Jonah’s Gourd Vine 719
ZORA NEALE HURSTON and
LANGSTON HUGHES
from Mule-Bone 729
Biographical NotesAcknowledgments
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