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Introduction

pt. 1. Aesthetics and the new Negro

African American representations on stage : minstrel performances and Hurston's dream of a "real" Negro theatre / Mónica González Caldeiro

No Negro Renaissance : Hubert H. Harrison and the role of the new Negro literary critic / Ousmane Kirumu Power-Greene

It's all sacred music : Duke Ellington, from the Cotton Club to the cathedral / Frank A. Salamone

pt. 2. Class and place in Harlem

"So the girl marries" : class, the black press, and the Du Bois-Cullen wedding of 1928 / Jacqueline C. Jones

The meaning and significance of Southern tradition in Rudolph Fisher's stories / Aija Poikāne-Daumke

Back to Harlem : abstract everyday labor during the Harlem Renaissance / Jacob S. Dorman

pt. 3. Literary icons reconsidered

Jessie Redmon Fauset reconsidered / Claire Oberon Garcia

Speak it into existence : James Weldon Johnson's God's trombones and the power of self-definition in the new Negro Harlem Renaissance / McKinley Melton

Border crossings : the diasporic travels of Claude McKay and Zora Neale Hurston / Myriam J.A. Chancy

The search for self in Wallace Thurman's The blacker the berry : color, class, and community / Martha E. Cook

pt. 4. Gender constructions

Jack Johnson, Paul Robeson, and the hypermasculine African American Übermensch / Paula Marie Seniors

Between Black gay men : artistic collaboration and the Harlem Renaissance in Brother to brother / Shawn Anthony Christian

pt. 5. Politics and the new Negro

Perspectives on interwar culture : remapping the new Negro era / Perry Hall

"Harlem globe-trotters" : Black sojourners in Stalin's Soviet Union / Maxim Matusevich

Afterword.

African Americans > New York (State) > New York > Intellectual life > 20th century.

African American arts > New York (State) > New York > 20th century.

African Americans > New York (State) > New York > Politics and government > 20th century.

African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century.

African Americans > Politics and government > 20th century.

Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Intellectual life > 20th century.

New York (N.Y.) > Intellectual life > 20th century.

Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Politics and government > 20th century.

New York (N.Y.) > Politics and government > 20th century.