Table of Contents

PREFACE
1. INTRODUCTION: NEW VIEWS ON OLD PREJUDICES
Africa and African Art
Vachel Lindsay
Carl Sandburg
Ridgley Torrence
Eugene O'Neill
Gertrude Stein
Julia Peterkin
Nigger Heaven and the Innocence of the New Negro Literature
2. SYMPTOMS OF A PHENOMENON
Charles Waddell Chesnutt
James Edwin Campbell
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Daniel Webster Davis and Other Minor Dialect Poets
James Weldon Johnson
W. E. Burghardt Du Bois
Claude McKay
Jessie Redmon Fauset
3. BLACK JOURNALS AND THE PROMOTION OF THE NEW NEGRO LITERATURE
Opportunity
The Crisis
The Messenger
Fire
Conclusion
4. AFFIRMATION OF BLACK SELF: BLACK CRACKS BETWEEN WHITE BOARDS
Jean Toomer
Countée Cullen
5. AFFIRMATION OF BLACK SELF: THE TOM-TOM CRIES AND THE TOM-TOM LAUGHS
Langston Hughes
Eric Walrond
Rudolph Fisher
Zora Neale Hurston
EPILOGUE
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX