The New Negro : Voices of the Harlem Renaissance

To many scholars and critics of the movement known as the Harlem Renaissance - that dramatic upsurge of creativity in literature, music and art within black American tha reached its zenith in hte second half of the 1920s- The New Negro is its definitive text, its bible. Most of the participants in the movement probably held the book in similar regard. Conceived and edited by Alain Locke, illustrated by Winold Reiss and Aaron Douglas, and published by the then prominent firm of Albert and Charles Boni, The New Negro alerted the world in 1925 that something approaching a cultural revolution was taking place among blacks in New York, as well as elsewhere in the United States and perhaps around the world. The book also attempted in a fairly ambitious, expansive way to offer a definition of this cultural movement...