Bücher von Alain Locke

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.

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.

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.