Eight Poems for the Love of Nature Milne, A.A; Paine, Thomas; Housman, A.E ...
The objective standard,
03/2022, Letnik:
17, Številka:
1
Journal Article
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 and World War II, as well as a central idea of the
Harlem, or New Negro, Renaissance. Edited by Henry Louis Gates,
Jr., and Gene Andrew Jarrett, The New Negro collects more
than one hundred canonical and lesser-known essays published
between 1892 and 1938 that examine the issues of race and
representation in African American culture. These readings--by
writers including W.E.B. Du Bois, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Alain
Locke, Carl Van Vechten, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard
Wright--discuss the trope of the New Negro, and the milieu in which
this figure existed, from almost every conceivable angle. Political
essays are joined by essays on African American fiction, poetry,
drama, music, painting, and sculpture. More than fascinating
historical documents, these essays remain essential to the way
African American identity and history are still understood
today.
The New Negro Henry Louis Gates, Gene Andrew Jarrett / Henry Louis Gates, Gene Andrew Jarrett
2021, 2007, 2021-06-08
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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 and World War II, as well as a central idea of the Harlem, or New Negro, Renaissance. Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Gene Andrew Jarrett, The New Negro collects more than one hundred canonical and lesser-known essays published between 1892 and 1938 that examine the issues of race and representation in African American culture. These readings--by writers including W.E.B. Du Bois, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Alain Locke, Carl Van Vechten, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Wright--discuss the trope of the New Negro, and the milieu in which this figure existed, from almost every conceivable angle. Political essays are joined by essays on African American fiction, poetry, drama, music, painting, and sculpture. More than fascinating historical documents, these essays remain essential to the way African American identity and history are still understood today.
Speakin' at de Cou't-house Dunbar, Paul Laurence
African American review,
07/2007, Letnik:
41, Številka:
2
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Well, says I, you all is white folks, But you's sutny actin' queer, What's de use of heroes comin' Ef dey cain't talk w'en dey's here? Aftah while dey let him open, An' dat man he waded in, An he fit ...de wahs all ovah Winnin' victories lak sin.
The entertainment given yesterday at the Waldorf-Astoria for the benefit of the Hampton Institute was slow in beginning, audience and principals being alike held back by the storm. One by one came in ...the cheerful black faces of Hampton students, members of the quartet, who were down to sing spirituals and folksongs; then Henry T. Burleigh, the soloist; Paul Lawrence sic Dunbar, the author of a book of poems, Lyrics of Lowly Life, who was to give an author’s reading; and Charles W. Wood of Tuskegee, who was to read selected pieces.
As this interesting group of men of the
