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The new Negro : an interpretation

Title
The new Negro : an interpretation / edited by Alain Locke ; book decoration and portraits by Winold Reiss.
Publication
New York : Albert and Charles Boni, 1927.

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Additional Authors
  • Locke, Alain, 1885-1954
  • Reiss, Winold, 1886-1953
  • Douglas, Aaron
  • Covarrubias, Miguel, 1904-1957
  • Lincoln School for Nurses stamp.
  • Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History. bookplate.
Description
xviii, 452 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, music, plates (some color) color portraits; 23 cm
Donor/Sponsor
Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2021-2024).
Subject
  • African Americans
  • American literature > African American authors
  • American literature > African American authors > History and criticism
  • African Americans > Literary collections
  • African Americans > Intellectual life
  • African American authors > Portraits
Genre/Form
Bookplates (Provenance)
Note
  • "Second printing, March, 1927"-- verso of title page.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Provenance (note)
  • Includes NYPL's bookplate of "Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History"; and stamps from former owner and Misc., stamp; "Lincoln School for Nurses" ; "Lincoln School for Nurses' Library" ; "5156 14."
Binding (note)
  • Original quarter cloth binding with blue and natural decorated paper over boards.
Contents
  • Pt.1. Negro renaissance: New Negro [by] Alain Locke -- Negro art and America [by] Albert C. Barnes -- Negro in American literature [by] William Stanley Braithwaite -- Negro youth speaks [by] Alain Locke. -- Fiction: City of refuge [by] Rudolph Fisher -- Vestiges [by] Rudolph Fisher -- Fog [by] John Matheus -- Carma, from Cane [by] Jean Toomer -- Fern, from Cane [by] Jean Toomer -- Spunk [by] Zora Neale Hurston -- Sahdji [by] Bruce Nugent -- Palm porch [by] Eric Walrond. -- Poetry: Poems [by] Countée Cullen -- Poems [by] Claude McKay -- Poems [by] Jean Toomer -- The creation [by] James Weldon Johnson -- Poems [by] Langston Hughes -- Poems [by] Georgia Douglas Johnson -- Lady, Lady [by] Anne Spencer -- Black finger [by] Angelina Grimke -- Enchantment [by] Lewis Alexander. -- Drama: Drama of Negro life [by] Montgomery Gregory -- Gift of laughter [by] Jessie Fauset -- Compromise (a folk play) [by] Willis Richardson. -- Music: Negro spirituals [by] A. Locke -- Negro dancers [by] Claude McKay -- Jazz at home [by] J.A. Rogers -- Jazzonia [by] Langston Hughes -- Nude young dancer [by] Langston Hughes. -- The Negro digs up his past [by] Arthur A. Schomburg -- American Negro folk literature [by] Arthur Huff Fauset -- T'appin, told by Cugo Lewis -- B'rer Rabbit fools Buzzard -- Heritage [by] Countée Cullen -- Legacy of the ancestral arts [by] A. Locke.
  • Pt. 2. New Negro in a New World: Negro pioneers [by] Paul U. Kellogg -- New frontage on American life [by] Charles S. Johnson. -- New scene: Harlem, the culture capital [by] James Weldon Johnson -- Howard, the National Negro University [by] Kelly Miller -- Hampton-Tuskegee, missioners of the mass [by] Robert R. Moton -- Durham, capital of the Black middle class [by] E. Franklin Frazier -- Gift of the Black tropics [by] W.A. Domingo. -- Negro and the American tradition: Negro's Americanism [by] Melville J. Herskovits -- Paradox of color [by] Walter White -- Task of Negro womanhood [by] Elise Johnson McDougald -- Worlds of color: Negro mind reaches out [by] 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 problems
Call Number
Sc Rare 323-L (Locke, A. New Negro)
OCLC
702332611
Title
The new Negro : an interpretation / edited by Alain Locke ; book decoration and portraits by Winold Reiss.
Publisher
New York : Albert and Charles Boni, 1927.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Provenance
Includes NYPL's bookplate of "Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History"; and stamps from former owner and Misc., stamp; "Lincoln School for Nurses" ; "Lincoln School for Nurses' Library" ; "5156 14." NN
Binding
Original quarter cloth binding with blue and natural decorated paper over boards.
Local Note
The Schomburg Center's Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Book Division's copy may be a post-Lawrence Reddick addition to the Schomburg collection. Imperfect: Edge and spine wear. Slight break at the spine. Currently house in an NYPL made portfolio.
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Place of Publication
United States New York (State) New York.
Added Author
Locke, Alain, 1885-1954, editor.
Reiss, Winold, 1886-1953, illustrator.
Douglas, Aaron, illustrator.
Covarrubias, Miguel, 1904-1957, illustrator.
Lincoln School for Nurses stamp.
Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History. bookplate.
Research Call Number
Sc Rare 323-L (Locke, A. New Negro)
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