
The New Negro
Alain Locke(Author)
Jeffrey C. Stewart(Editor)
Oxford University Press
Published on 13. November 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
512 pages
978-0-19-891145-6 (ISBN)
Description
'We have to-morrow
Bright before us
Like a flame'
The New Negro: An Interpretation is a multidisciplinary anthology of poetry, fiction, essays, criticism, art, and philosophy woven together into a seamless statement of Black agency in the arts and humanities that became, upon its publication in 1925, an instant publishing success. Edited by Alain Locke, a man known as the father of the Harlem Renaissance, the text is a powerful, provocative, and affecting anthology of writers who shaped the Harlem Renaissance movement and who help us to consider the evolution of the African American in society. With works by Black voices such as Zora Neale Hurston, Countee Cullen, and W. E. B. DuBois, Locke constructed a vivid look at the changing African American, finding their place in the ever shifting sociocultural landscape that was 1920s America.
With an introduction from Jeffrey C. Stewart, leading biographer of Locke, this collection explores the literary strength as well as the historical context of a monumental and fascinating time in the history of America.
Bright before us
Like a flame'
The New Negro: An Interpretation is a multidisciplinary anthology of poetry, fiction, essays, criticism, art, and philosophy woven together into a seamless statement of Black agency in the arts and humanities that became, upon its publication in 1925, an instant publishing success. Edited by Alain Locke, a man known as the father of the Harlem Renaissance, the text is a powerful, provocative, and affecting anthology of writers who shaped the Harlem Renaissance movement and who help us to consider the evolution of the African American in society. With works by Black voices such as Zora Neale Hurston, Countee Cullen, and W. E. B. DuBois, Locke constructed a vivid look at the changing African American, finding their place in the ever shifting sociocultural landscape that was 1920s America.
With an introduction from Jeffrey C. Stewart, leading biographer of Locke, this collection explores the literary strength as well as the historical context of a monumental and fascinating time in the history of America.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 193 mm
Width: 131 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
360 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-891145-6 (9780198911456)
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Persons
Jeffrey C. Stewart is Professor of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke (OUP, 2018), which won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
Content
Introduction Note on the Text Select Bibliography Chronology The New Negro Part I: The Negro Renaissance Part II: The New Negro in a New World Explanatory Notes