Voices from the Harlem Renaissance

Name: Voices from the Harlem Renaissance
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ISBN: 9780195093605

ISBN-10: 0195093607

ISBN-13: 9780195093605

Edition: 1994 (Reprint)

Authors: Nathan Irvin Huggins

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The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s symbolized black liberation andsophistication--the final shaking off of slavery, in the mind, spirit, andcharacter of African-Americans. It was a period when the African-American cameof age, with the clearest expression of this transformation visible in theremarkable outpouring of literature, art, and music. In these years the "NewNegro" was born, as seen in the shift of black leadership from Booker T.Washington to that of W.E.B. Du Bois, from Tuskegee to New York, and for some,even to the African nationalism of Marcus Garvey.In Voices from the Harlem Renaissance, Nathan Irvin Huggins provides more than120 selections from the political writings and arts… of the period, eachdepicting the meaning of blackness and the nature of African-American art andits relation to social statement. Through these pieces, Huggins establishes thecontext in which the art of Harlem Renaissance occurred. We read the call toaction by pre-Renaissance black spokesmen, such as A. Philip Randolph and W.E.B.DuBois who--through magazines such as The Messenger ("the only radical Negromagazine"), and the NAACP's Crisis--called for a radical transformation of theAmerican economic and social order so as to make a fair world for black men andwomen. We hear the more flamboyant rhetoric of Marcus Garvey, who rejected theidea of social equality for a completely separate African social order. And wemeet Alain Locke, whose work served to redefine the "New Negro" in culturalterms, and stands as the cornerstone of the Harlem Renaissance.Huggins goes on to offer autobiographical writings, poetry, and stories ofsuch men and women as Langston Hughes, Nancy Cunard, Helen Johnson, and ClaudeMcKay--writings that depict the impact of Harlem and New York City on those wholived there, as well as the youthfulness and exuberance of the period. Thecomplex question of identity, a very important part of the thought andexpression of the Harlem Renaissance, is addressed in work's such as JeanToomer's Bona and Paul and Zora Neale Hurston's Sweat. And Huggins goes on toattend to the voices of alienation, anger, and rage that appeared in a greatdeal of the writing to come out of the Harlem Renaissance by poets such asGeorge S. Schuyler and Gwendolyn Bennett. Also included are over twentyillustations by such artists as Aaron Douglas whose designs illuminated many ofthe works we associate with the Harlem Renaissance: the magazines Fire andHarlem; Alain Locke's The New Negro; and James Weldon Johnson's God's Trombones.The vitality of the Harlem Renaissance served as a generative force for allNew York--and the nation. Offering all those interested in the evolution ofAfrican-American consciousness and art a link to this glorious time, Voices fromthe Harlem Renaissance illuminates the African-American struggle forself-realization.

Book details

List price: $14.99
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/26/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 10.51" wide x 6.54" long x 1.14" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Nathan Irvin Huggins was W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of History and Afro-American Studies and Director of the Du Bois Institute at Harvard University until his death in 1989. His books include Slave and Citizen: The Life of Frederick Douglass, Black Odyssey: The African-American Ordeal in Slavery, and Voices From the Harlem Renaissance. Arnold Rampersad is Sara Hart Kimball Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University and is the author of The Life of Langston Hughes, among other titles.



Introduction



"New Negro" Radicalism


From The Messenger: The Negro - A Menace to Radicalism


A New Crowd - A New Negro



"If We Must Die"



Defense of Negro Rioters



The New Negro - What Is He?



Africa for the Africans



Garveyism



Africa for the Africans



The Future as I See It



Race Pride




Harlem Renaissance: The Urban Setting


Harlem Directory from Harlem


The New Negro



from Black Manhattan



My City



Editorial from Harlem



The Caucasian Storms Harlem



from A Long Way From Home



The Topics in New York



Harlem Shadows



City Love



from The Big Sea



Esthete in Harlem



Railroad Avenue



Smoke, Lilies and Jade



Blades of Steel



Harlem Wine



Harlem Reviewed



A Negro Extravaganza



Afro-American Identity - Who Am I?


The Legacy of the Ancestral Arts



Heritage



Uncle Jim



Tableau



Saturday's Child



Afro-American Fragment



Luani of the Jungles



Danse Africaine



Negro



Cross



I Too Sing America



The Negro Speaks of Rivers



from Banjo



Africa



Mulatto



Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem



Poem



Bona and Paul



To A Dark Girl



Wedding Day



Odyssey of Big Boy



Sweat



African Diary



On Being Black



Afro-American Past - History and Folk Tradition


The Negro Digs Up His Past



Song of the Son



Fifty Years (1863-1913)



Characteristics of Negro Expression



Shouting



The Sermon



Uncle Monday



Sterling Brown: The New Negro Folk-Poet



Visual Arts: To Celebrate Blackness


Aaron Douglas, Sargent Johnson, Richmond Barthe, Augusta Savage, Hale Woodruff, William H. Johnson, Archibald J. Motley, Palmer Hayden


Afro-American Art: Art or Propaganda? High or Low Culture?


Preface to The Book of American Negro Poetry



O Black and Unknown Bards



The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain



Hurt



The Negro-Art Hokum



Art or Propaganda



Dead Fires



To John Keats, Poet, at Springtime



For a Poet



Yet Do I Marvel



from Infants of the Spring



The Banjo Player



Conversation with James P. Johnson



Interview with Eubie Blake



Christianity: Alien Gospel or Source of Inspiration?


Go Down Death



Spirituals and Neo-Spirituals



Black Magdalens



Simon the Cyrenian Speaks



Fruit of the Flower



She of the Dancing Feet Sings



Conception



The Suppliant



A Missionary Brings a Young Native to America



Alienation, Anger, Rage


Brothers



If We Must Die



The White House



The Lynching



America



A Black Man Talks of Reaping



Old Black Men



Hatred



Remembering Nat Turner



Dream Variation



Song For a Dark Girl



Mother to Son



Incident



From the Dark Tower



A Southern Road



Our Greatest Gift to America




Reflections on the Renaissance and Art for a New Day


from The Big Sea



Harlem Runs Wild



A Negro Nation Within the Nation



Foreword, from Challenge



Dear Reader, from Challenge



Comments, from Challenge



Dear Reader, from Challenge



"Editorial" from The New Challenge


Blueprint for Negro Writing



For a Negro Magazine



Spiritual Truancy



Barrel Staves



Widow with a Moral Obligation



Poem



Always the Same



Goodbye, Christ



Long Black Song