The new Negro : readings on race, representation, and African American culture, 1892-1938

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. (Added Author). Jarrett, Gene Andrew, 1975- (Added Author).

Summary: When African American intellectuals announced the birth of the ""New Negro"" around the turn of the twentieth century, they were attempting through a bold act of renaming to change the way blacks were depicted and perceived in America. By challenging stereotypes of the Old Negro, and declaring that the New Negro was capable of high achievement, black writers tried to revolutionize how whites viewed blacks--and how blacks viewed themselves. Nothing less than a strategy to re-create the public face of ""the race, "" the New Negro became a dominant figure of racial uplift between Reconstruction an

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ISBN: 9780691126524
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ISBN: 9781400827879
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Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 591 pages) : music
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Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2007.

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General Note:	CatMonthString:july.24 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 559-565) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	X. Theater. The Negro in drama / Rollin Lynde Hartt -- Reflections on O'Neill's plays / Paul Robeson -- The drama of Negro life / Montgomery Gregory -- The gift of laughter / Jessie Fauset -- Same old blues / Theophilus Lewis -- The drama of Negro life / Alain Locke -- The Negro in the field of drama / Rowena Woodham Jelliffe -- Has the Negro a place in the theatre? / Jules Bledsoe -- A criticism of the Negro drama as it relates to the Negro dramatist and artist / Eulalie Spence -- From Black Manhattan / James Weldon Johnson -- The Negro theatre--a dodo bird / Ralph Matthews -- XI. The fine arts. A note on African art ; The American Negro as artist ; African art : classic style / Alain Locke -- Henry Ossawa Tanner / Jessie Fauset -- African plastic in contemporary art / Harry Alan Potamkin -- The Negro artist and modern art / Romare Bearden.
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Language Note:	In English.
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