Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Locke, Alain, 1885-1954
2. Reiss, Winold, 1886-1953
3. Douglas, Aaron
4. Albert & Charles Boni, publisher.

Description

1. xviii, 446 pages, 17 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, music, portraits (some color); 23 cm

Donor/Sponsor

1. Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2021-2024).

Subject

1. Inscriptions (Provenance)
2. Literature
3. Literary collections
4. Criticism, interpretation, etc
5. African Americans in literature
6. African Americans > Intellectual life
7. African American art
8. African Americans > Literary collections
9. Locke, Alain, 1885-1954 > Portraits
10. Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967 > Portraits
11. Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976 > Portraits
12. Cullen, Countee, 1903-1946 > Portraits
13. Du Bois, W. E. B (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 > Portraits
14. Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance)
15. American literature > African American authors > History and criticism

Genre/Form

1. Literature.
2. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
3. Literary collections.
4. Inscriptions (Provenance)

Contents

1. 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.
2. 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.

Call number

1. Sc 810.8-L (Locke, A. New Negro. 1925)

Note

1. Includes illustrations by Aaron Douglas.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-446).

Indexed in (note)

1. New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall.

Title

1. The new Negro : an interpretation / edited by Alain Locke ; book decoration and portraits by Winold Reiss.

Publisher

1. New York : Albert and Charles Boni, 1925.

Copyright date

1. ©1925

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-446).

Indexed in:

1. New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall., v. 5, page 4197, column 1, row 1

Local note

1. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture has four copies of the book; three copies in the Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division; and one in the Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. Copy 1 in Sc Rare 810.8-L (accession no. B434798) is inscribed in ink by Alain Locke: "For the Division of Negro Literature and History of the 135th Street Branch Library, Alain Locke, 1926." It includes various NYPL stamps such as: "Division of Negro Literature and History,
2. Copy 2 in Sc Rare 810.8-L (accession no. B594243) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. It includes NYPL's bookplate of Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection pasted on page [2] of cover and inscribed in ink on the half-title page: "To my dear friend, Arthur A. Schomburg, valued collaborator in this and other projects, Alain Leroy Locke. December 3, 19[25]
3. Copy 3 in Sc 810.8-L (accession no. G277555) at the Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division is a gift. Probably one of the items added to the collection when Catherine A. Latimer and Lawrence Reddick were the collection librarian & Curator. It inscribed in ink on half-title page: "To Roland R. Johnson, with fraternal regard, Alain Leroy Locke. March 4, 1926." Imperfect: lacks original cover, bound in red or burgandy cloth over boards library binding, and gilt spine. It includes one of the later versions of the NYPL's bookplate for {28}The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
4. Copy 4 in Sc Rare D 78-2 is probably a post-Lawrence Reddick's addition to the Schomburg collection. It contains autographs from the contributors such as Countee Cullen, James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, Jessie Fauset, W.E.B. DuBois, Walter White, R.B. Nugent, etc. It also includes a 1972 onward NYPL bookplate for {28}the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Connect to:

1. View a selection of digital images in the Beinecke Library's Digital Images Online database
2. Internet Archive, State Library of Pennsylvania
3. NYPL Digital Collections

Place of publication

1. United States New York (State) New York.

Added author

1. Locke, Alain, 1885-1954, editor.
2. Reiss, Winold, 1886-1953, illustrator.
3. Douglas, Aaron, illustrator.
4. Albert & Charles Boni, publisher.
5. Locke, Alain LeRoy, 1886-1954, inscriber.
6. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner, inscriber.

Other form:

1. Online version: New Negro. New York : A. and C. Boni, 1925 (OCoLC)624456101

LCCN

1. 25025228

Research call number

1. Sc 810.8-L (Locke, A. New Negro. 1925)
2. Sc Rare 810.8-L (Locke, A. New Negro)
3. Sc Rare D 78-2
4. IEC (Locke, A. L. New Negro : an interpretation)