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| List of Illustrations and Song Lyrics | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| A Note on the Text | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Essays | |
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| The New Negro | |
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| The New Negro--What Is He? | |
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| The Negro in American Literature | |
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| Closed Doors: A Study in Segregation | |
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| Harlem: The Culture Capital | |
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| A Point of View: An Opportunity Dinner Reaction | |
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| The Negro-Art Hokum | |
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| The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain | |
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| On Langston Hughes: I Am a Negro--and Beautiful | |
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| Criteria of Negro Art | |
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| Blueprint for Negro Writing | |
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| Characteristics of Negro Expression | |
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| Impressions of the Second Pan-African Congress | |
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| Africa for the Africans | |
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| Gift of the Black Tropics | |
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| The Caucasian Storms Harlem | |
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| The Task of Negro Womanhood | |
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| On Being Young--a Woman--and Colored | |
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| Woman's Most Serious Problem | |
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| Problems Facing Negro Young Women | |
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| The Legacy of the Ancestral Arts | |
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| Jazz at Home | |
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| The American Negro Paints | |
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| Creative Writing | |
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| Poems | |
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| The Creation | |
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| Mother Night | |
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| The White Witch | |
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| My City | |
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| Poems | |
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| Violets | |
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| You! Inez! | |
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| I Sit and Sew | |
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| The Proletariat Speaks | |
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| Story | |
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| His Great Career | |
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| Poems | |
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| The Heart of a Woman | |
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| Motherhood | |
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| The Octoroon | |
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| Escape | |
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| The Black Runner | |
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| Wishes | |
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| I Want to Die While You Love Me | |
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| Story | |
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| Tramp Love | |
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| Play | |
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| Plumes: A Folk Tragedy | |
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| Poems | |
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| El Beso | |
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| The Black Finger | |
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| The Want of You | |
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| Dusk | |
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| A Mona Lisa | |
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| Tenebris | |
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| Story | |
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| Goldie | |
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| Play | |
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| Rachel | |
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| Poems | |
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| White Things | |
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| Lady, Lady | |
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| Letter to My Sister | |
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| Grapes: Still-Life | |
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| Black Man o' Mine | |
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| Poems | |
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| Oriflamme | |
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| Here's April! | |
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| Words! Words! | |
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| Touche | |
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| La Vie C'Est la Vie | |
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| Story | |
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| Mary Elizabeth | |
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| Poems | |
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| The Bronze Legacy (To a Brown Boy) | |
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| Exodus | |
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| The Bird in the Cage | |
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| The Quilt | |
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| Poems | |
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| Requiem | |
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| In Haiti Is Riot of Color-- | |
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| Story | |
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| Fog | |
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| Play | |
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| 'Cruiter | |
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| Poems | |
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| The Banjo Player | |
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| The Scarlet Woman | |
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| Tired | |
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| Poems | |
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| The Harlem Dancer | |
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| If We Must Die | |
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| Africa | |
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| America | |
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| Baptism | |
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| Harlem Shadows | |
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| To O.E.A. | |
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| Like a Strong Tree | |
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| The Tropics in New York | |
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| Story | |
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| Mattie and Her Sweetman | |
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| Plays | |
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| The Chip Woman's Fortune | |
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| The Flight of the Natives | |
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| Poems | |
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| Wash Day | |
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| Definition | |
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| Black Baby | |
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| Black Faces | |
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| Negro Laughter | |
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| Story | |
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| Two Old Women A-Shopping Go! A Story of Man, Marriage and Poverty | |
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| Poem | |
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| Passion | |
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| Stories | |
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| Spunk | |
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| Sweat | |
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| Play | |
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| Color Struck | |
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| Story | |
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| Sanctuary | |
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| Play | |
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| Undertow | |
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| Poems | |
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| Song of the Son | |
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| Georgia Dusk | |
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| Portrait in Georgia | |
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| Story | |
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| Blood-Burning Moon | |
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| Poems | |
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| And What Shall You Say? | |
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| Is It Because I Am Black? | |
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| Sonnet to Negro Soldiers | |
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| Rain Music | |
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| Play | |
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| On the Fields of France | |
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| Stories | |
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| The City of Refuge | |
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| Miss Cynthie | |
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| Story | |
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| The Voodoo's Revenge | |
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| Play | |
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| Riding the Goat | |
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| Story | |
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| One Boy's Story | |
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| Play | |
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| The Pot Maker | |
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| Poems | |
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| Ma Rainey | |
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| Sam Smiley | |
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| Southern Road | |
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| Strong Men | |
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| Poems | |
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| The Negro Speaks of Rivers | |
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| Danse Africaine | |
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| Jazzonia | |
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| Song to a Negro Wash-Woman | |
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| Dream Variation | |
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| Desire | |
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| Poem [2] | |
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| The Weary Blues | |
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| To Midnight Nan at Leroy's | |
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| Lullaby | |
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| Listen Here Blues | |
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| Bound No'th Blues | |
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| Song for a Dark Girl | |
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| Story | |
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| The Blues I'm Playing | |
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| Play | |
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| Mulatto: A Tragedy of the Deep South | |
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| Poems | |
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| Heritage | |
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| To a Dark Girl | |
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| Hatred | |
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| Advice | |
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| Fantasy | |
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| Stories | |
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| Wedding Day | |
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| Tokens | |
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| Poems | |
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| The Last Citadel | |
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| God's Edict | |
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| Stories | |
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| Cordelia the Crude | |
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| Emma Lou | |
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| Poems | |
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| Golgotha Is a Mountain | |
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| Length of Moon | |
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| Nocturne at Bethesda | |
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| A Black Man Talks of Reaping | |
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| God Give to Men | |
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| The Return | |
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| Story | |
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| A Summer Tragedy | |
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| Poems | |
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| Heritage | |
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| Sacrament | |
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| Tableau | |
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| Yet Do I Marvel | |
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| From the Dark Tower | |
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| Colored Blues Singer | |
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| To Certain Critics | |
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| Little Sonnet to Little Friends | |
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| Poems | |
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| Rainy Season Love Song | |
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| The Serving Girl | |
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| Lullaby | |
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| The Palm Wine Seller | |
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| Poems | |
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| No Images | |
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| Dust | |
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| The Radical | |
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| Poem | |
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| Shadow | |
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| Stories | |
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| Sahdji | |
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| Smoke, Lilies, and Jade! | |
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| Play | |
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| Sahdji, an African Ballet | |
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| Stories | |
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| The Typewriter | |
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| The Black Dress | |
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| Poems | |
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| My Race | |
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| Magalu | |
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| The Road | |
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| Mother | |
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| Bottled | |
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| Poem | |
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| Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem | |
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| Poems | |
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| Dusk | |
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| Heritage | |
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| Insatiate | |
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| Poem ... for a Lover | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index of Writers and Artists | |