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The Brown Madonna
THE NEW NEGRO
AN INTERPRETATION
EDITED BY ALAIN LOCKE
BOOK
DECORATION
AND
PORTRAITS
BY
WINOLD
REISS
ALBERT AND CHARLES BONI
NEW YORK 1925
Copyright, 1925, by Albert & Charles Boni, Inc.
Published, December, 1925
Second printing, March, 1927
Printed in the United States of America
This Volume
Is Dedicated
To The
YOUNGER GENERATION
(Traditional.)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Thanks are due and acknowledgment made by the Editor and Publishers for the kind permission of the authors and publishers listed for the use of copyright material in the preparation of this volume. Especial acknowledgment is made to the Survey Associates and the Editors of the Survey Graphic for the assignment of the material of the Harlem Number, March, 1925, of Survey Graphic, the bulk of which, with much additional new material, has been incorporated.
The Atlantic Monthly Co.: The City of Refuge, by Rudolph Fisher.
Boni and Liveright: Carma and Fern and two poems from Cane, by Jean Toomer.
Harcourt, Brace & Co.: Baptism and the Harlem Dancer from "Harlem Shadows", by Claude McKay, and Creation from "The Book of American Negro Verse", by James W. Johnson.
G. Schirmer Co.: for the text and music of Father Abraham from "Afro-American Folk Songs", by H. E. Krehbiel, and Listen to the Lambs from "Negro Folk Songs", by Nathalie Curtis Burlin.
The New Age: the Palm Porch, by Eric Walrond.
The Survey and Harper Bros.: Seven Poems of Harlem Life and Heritage from "Color", by Countée Cullen.
Vanity Fair: for Drawings, by Miguel Covarrubias.
The Barnes Foundation: for reproductions of African Art objects.
Foreign Affairs: for Color Worlds, by W. E. B. Du Bois.
The Crisis: for The Negro in American Literature, by Wm. Stanley Braithwaite; Jazzonia, by Langston Hughes, Escape by Georgia D. Johnson.
The Brimmer Co.: for two Poems from "Bronze", by Georgia Douglas Johnson.
The Liberator: for Negro Dancers, by Claude McKay.
The Bookman: To a Brown Boy, by Countée Cullen.
Harper's Magazine: Fruit of the Flower, by Countée Cullen.
Opportunity: Fog, by John Matheus; Spunk, by Zora Hurston; Black Finger, by Angelina Grimke, Riddle by Georgia D. Johnson.
Survey Graphic and Alfred A. Knopf: for five poems from "The Weary Blues", by Langston Hughes.
Survey Graphic: for Tuskegee, Hampton and Points North, by Robert R. Moton.
Winold Reiss: for his series of Negro Portrait Studies.
| PAGE | ||
| Foreword | ix | |
| Part I: The Negro Renaissance | ||
| The New Negro | Alain Locke | 3 |
| Negro Art and America | Albert C. Barnes | 19 |
| The Negro in American Literature | William Stanley Braithwaite | 29 |
| Negro Youth Speaks | Alain Locke | 47 |
| Fiction: | ||
| The City of Refuge | Rudolph Fisher | 57 |
| Vestiges | Rudolph Fisher | 75 |
| Fog | John Matheus | 85 |
| Carma, from Cane | Jean Toomer | 96 |
| Fern, from Cane | Jean Toomer | 99 |
| Spunk | Zora Neale Hurston | 105 |
| Sahdji | Bruce Nugent | 113 |
| The Palm Porch | Eric Walrond | 115 |
| Poetry: | ||
| Poems | Countée Cullen | 129 |
| Poems | Claude McKay | 133 |
| Poems | Jean Toomer | 136 |
| The Creation | James Weldon Johnson | 138 |
| Poems | Langston Hughes | 141 |
| The Day-Breakers | Arna Bontemps | 145 |
| Poems | Georgia Johnson | 146 |
| Lady, Lady | Anne Spencer | 148 |
| The Black Finger | Angelina Grimke | 148 |
| Enchantment | Lewis Alexander | 149 |
| drama: | ||
| The Drama of Negro Life | Montgomery Gregory | 153 |
| The Gift of Laughter | Jessie Fauset | 161 |
| Compromise (A Folk Play) | Willis Richardson | 168 |
| Music: | ||
| The Negro Spirituals | Alain Locke | 199 |
| Negro Dancers | Claude McKay | 214 |
| Jazz at Home | J. A. Rogers | 216 |
| Song | Gwendolyn B. Bennett | 225 |
| Jazzonia | Langston Hughes | 226 |
| Nude Young Dancer | Langston Hughes | 227 |
| The Negro Digs up His Past | Arthur A. Schomburg | 231 |
| American Negro Folk Literature | Arthur Huff Fauset | 238 |
| T’appin | Told by Cugo Lewis | 245 |
| B’rer Rabbit Fools Buzzard | 248 | |
| Heritage | Countée Cullen | 250 |
| The Legacy of the Ancestral Arts | Alain Locke | 254 |
| Part II: The New Negro in a New World | ||
| The Negro Pioneers | Paul U. Kellogg | 271 |
| The New Frontage on American Life | Charles S. Johnson | 278 |
| The Road | Helene Johnson | 300 |
| The New Scene: | ||
| Harlem: the Culture Capital | James Weldon Johnson | 301 |
| Howard: The National Negro University | Kelly Miller | 312 |
| Hampton-Tuskegee: Missioners of the Masses | Robert R. Moton | 323 |
| Durham: Capital of the Black Middle Class | E. Franklin Frazier | 333 |
| Gift of the Black Tropics | W. A. Domingo | 341 |
| The Negro and the American Tradition | ||
| The Negro’s Americanism | Melville J. Herskovits | 353 |
| The Paradox of Color | Walter White | 361 |
| The Task of Negro Womanhood | Elise Johnson McDougald | 369 |
| Worlds of Color: | ||
| The Negro Mind Reaches Out | W. E. B. DuBois | 385 |
| Bibliography | ||
| Who’s Who of the Contributors | 415 | |
| A Selected List of Negro Americana and Africana | 421 | |
| The Negro in Literature | 427 | |
| Negro Drama | 432 | |
| Negro Music | 434 | |
| Negro Folk Lore | 442 | |
| The Negro Race Problems | 449 | |
ILLUSTRATIONS
Cover design and book decorations by Winold Reiss
Drawings by Winold Reiss
| The Brown Madonna. | Frontispiece |
| Portrait Sketch: Alain Locke | facing page 6 |
| Portrait: Jean Toomer. | facing“ page“ 100 |
| Portrait: Countée Cullen. | facing“ page“ 132 |
| Study: Paul Robeson as “Emperor Jones” | facing“ page“ 166 |
| Portrait: Roland Hayes. | facing“ page“ 208 |
| African Phantasie: Awakening | facing“ page“ 232 |
| Type Sketch: “Ancestral”. | facing“ page“ 242 |
| Portrait: Charles S. Johnson | facing“ page“ 278 |
| Portrait: James Weldon Johnson | facing“ page“ 306 |
| Portrait: Robert Russa Moton | facing“ page“ 324 |
| Type Sketch: “From the Tropic Isles” . | facing“ page“ 342 |
| Portrait Sketch: Elise Johnson McDougald | facing“ page“ 370 |
| Portrait: Mary McLeod Bethune | facing“ page“ 378 |
| Portrait: W. E. Burghardt Du Bois | facing“ page“ 386 |
| Type Sketch: “The Librarian” | facing“ page“ 394 |
| Type Sketch: “The School Teachers” | facing“ page“ 410 |
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Drawings and Decorative Designs by Aaron Douglas
| Meditation. | page 54 |
| Rebirth. | page“ 56 |
| Sahdji. | page“ 112 |
| The Poet. | page“ 128 |
| The Sun-God. | page“ 138 |
| “Emperor Jones”. | page“ 152 |
| “Roll, Jordan, Roll”. | page“ 196 |
| “And the Stars began to Fall”. | page“ 198 |
| Music. | page 216 |
| The Spirit of Africa | page“ 228 |
| “From the New World” | page“ 270 |
| W. V. Ruckterschell: | |
| Young Negro | page“ 46 |
| Drawings by Miguel Covarrubias | |
| Jazz. | page 225 |
| Blues Singer | page“ 227 |
| Negro-Americana: Title Pages from the Schomburg Collection | |
| Title Page—Jupiter Hammon | page 26 |
| Title“ Page“—Slave Narrative | page“ 28 |
| Title“ Page“—Jacobus Capitein | page“ 230 |
| African Sculptures | |
| From the Barnes Foundation Collection: | |
| Baoulé Mask. | page 244 |
| Bushongo Mask. | page“ 255 |
| Soudan-Niger Mask. | page“ 257 |
| Yabouba Mask. | page“ 258 |
| Ceremonial Mask (Ivory Coast) | page“ 259 |
| Dahomey Bronze. | page“ 260 |
| From other Collections: | |
| Bronze Mask (Guillaume Collection) | page 256 |
| Congo Portrait Statue (Tervuren Museum) | page“ 263 |
| Benin Bronze (Berlin Ethnological Museum) | page“ 265 |
| Ceremonial Mask,—Dahomey (Frankford Museum). | page“ 268 |
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