The New Negro : Voices of the Harlem Renaissance
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Editor: Alain LockeIntroduction: Arnold Rampersad
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1999-03-01
ISBN: 0684838311
Number of pages: 452
Publisher: Touchstone
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Book Review: THE GREATEST SUMMARY OF WRITINGS FROM THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
Summary: 5 Stars
Alain LeRoy Locke (1885-1954) was an American writer, philosopher, educator, and patron of the arts. He is regarded as the "Father of the Harlem Renaissance."
Locke wrote in the Foreword to this 1995 book, "This volume aims to document the New Negro culturally and socially---to register the transformations of the inner and outer life of the Negro in America that have so significantly taken place in the last few years. There is ample evidence of a New Negro in the latest phases of social change and progress, but still more in the internal world of the Negro mind and spirit."
Here are some quotations from the book:
(Alain Locke) "As with the Jew, persecution is making the Negro international." (Pg. 14)
(Jessie Fauset) "For years the Caucasian in America has persisted in dragging to the limelight merely one aspect of Negro characteristics, by which the whole race has been glimpsed, through which it has been judged." (Pg. 161)
(J.A. Rogers) "The Negroes who invented it called their songs the 'Blues,' and they weren't capable of satire of deception. Jazz was their explosive attempt to cast off the blues and be happy, carefree happy, even in the midst of sordidness and sorrow. And that is why it has been such a balm for modern ennui, and has become a safety valve for modern machine-ridden and convention-bound society. It is the revolt of the emotions against repression." (Pg. 217)
(Charles S. Johnson) "A new type of Negro is evolving---a city Negro." (Pg. 285)
(James Weldon Johnson) "To my mind, Harlem is more than a Negro community, it is a large scale laboratory experiment in the race problem." (Pg. 310)
(Kelly Miller) "It was said that the Negro could not be educated. The missionaries refuted the charge by educating him... Nowhere in all history has education so fully vindicated its claim as the process of unlocking and releasing the higher powers and faculties of human nature." (Pg. 314)
(Walter White) "The constant hammering of three hundred years of oppression has resulted in a race consciousness among the Negroes of the United States which is amazing to those who know how powerful it is." (Pg. 366)
Summary of The New Negro : Voices of the Harlem Renaissance
An interpretative anthology that acted as a manifesto for the Harlem Renaissance defines the artistic and social goals of the New Negro Movement of the 1920s.History & Criticism Books
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