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Tables of Contents for The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
xiii
Chronology
xliii
Part I. Essays and Memoirs
Returning Soldiers
3
3
W. E. B. Du Bois
The Migration of the Talented Tenth
6
4
Carter G. Woodson
Gift of the Black Tropics
10
7
W. A. Domingo
Africa for the Africans
17
9
Marcus Garvey
Liberty Hall Emancipation Day Speech
26
3
On Marcus Garvey
29
5
Mary White Ovington
Black Manhattan
34
12
James Weldon Johnson
The New Negro
46
6
Alain Locke
Jazz at Home
52
6
Joel A. Rogers
Reflections on O'Neill's Plays
58
3
Paul Robeson
The Negro Digs Up His Past
61
7
Arthur A. Schomburg
The Task of Negro Womanhood
68
23
Elise Johnson McDougald
from The Big Sea
Langston Hughes
When the Negro Was in Vogue
77
4
Harlem Literati
81
5
Parties
86
5
The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain
91
5
The Negro-Art Hokum
96
4
George S. Schuyler
Criteria of Negro Art
100
6
W. E. B. Du Bois
Critiques of Carl Van Vechten's Nigger Heaven
106
4
Du Bois
J. W. Johnson
The Caucasian Storms Harlem
110
8
Rudolph Fisher
Aaron Douglas Chats about the Harlem Renaissance
118
10
Aaron Douglas
Negro Art and America
128
6
Albert C. Barnes
The Negro Takes His Place in American Art
134
4
Alain Locke
The Negro Artist and Modern Art
138
4
Romare Bearden
from Dust Tracks on a Road
142
31
Zora Neale Hurston
from A Long Way from Home
Claude McKay
The Harlem Intelligentsia
157
4
The New Negro in Paris
161
12
La Bourgeoisie Noire
173
9
E. Franklin Frazier
With Langston Hughes in the USSR
182
8
Louise Thompson Patterson
Harlem Runs Wild
190
4
Claude Mckay
Blueprint for Negro Writing
194
12
Richard Wright
The Negro Renaissance and Its Significance
206
15
Charles S. Johnson
Part II. Poetry
Song
221
2
Gwendolyn Bennett
Hatred
223
1
The Day-Breakers
224
1
Arna Bontemps
Golgotha Is a Mountain
224
3
Southern Road
227
2
Sterling Brown
Odyssey of Big Boy
229
2
Frankie and Johnny
231
1
Ma Rainey
232
2
Long Gone
234
1
Georgie Grimes
235
1
Remembering Nat Turner
236
2
The Young Voice Cries
238
3
Mae Cowdery
The Wayside Well
241
1
Joseph S. Cotter
For a Lady I Know
242
1
Countee Cullen
Incident
243
1
Harlem Wine
243
1
Yet Do I Marvel
244
1
Heritage
244
3
From the Dark Tower
247
1
To a Brown Boy
248
1
Tableau
248
1
Saturday's Child
249
1
Two Poets
250
1
To France
250
1
Nothing Endures
250
1
Requiescam
251
1
The Death Bed
252
2
Waring Cuney
La Vie C'est la Vie
254
1
Jessie Redmon Fauset
Dead Fires
255
2
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
257
1
Langston Hughes
I, Too
258
1
America
258
2
The Weary Blues
260
1
Jazzonia
261
1
Mother to Son
261
1
Negro
262
1
Mulatto
263
1
Elevator Boy
263
1
Red Silk Stockings
264
1
Ruby Brown
264
1
Elderly Race Leaders
265
1
Dream Variation
266
1
Goodbye, Christ
266
1
Advertisement for the Waldorf-Astoria
267
4
Children of the Sun
271
1
Fenton Johnson
The Banjo Player
272
1
Let Me Not Lose My Dream
273
1
Georgia Douglas Johnson
Old Black Men
273
1
Black Woman
274
1
The Heart of a Woman
274
1
I Want to Die While You Love Me
275
1
My Race
276
1
Helene Johnson
A Southern Road
276
1
Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem
277
1
Poem
277
2
The White Witch
279
2
James Weldon Johnson
The Color Sergeant
281
1
O Black and Unknown Bards
282
2
Go Down Death
284
2
The Creation
286
4
If We Must Die
290
1
Claude McKay
Baptism
290
1
The White House
291
1
The Negro's Friend
291
1
On a Primitive Canoe
292
1
The Tropics in New York
292
1
When Dawn Comes to the City
293
1
The Desolate City
294
2
The Harlem Dancer
296
1
St. Isaac's Church, Petrograd
297
1
Barcelona
297
2
Lady, Lady
299
2
Anne Spencer
Song of the Son
301
1
Jean Toomer
Georgia Dusk
302
1
The Blue Meridian
303
8
Part III. Fiction
from The Emperor Jones
311
7
Eugene O'Neill
from Cane
318
15
Jean Toomer
Karintha
319
1
Fern
319
4
Bona and Paul
323
10
Birthright
333
7
T. S. Stribling
from There Is Confusion
340
8
Jessie Redmon Fauset
from Plum Bun
348
3
from The Fire in the Flint
351
12
Walter White
Wedding Day
363
32
Gwendolyn Bennett
from Home to Harlem
Claude McKay
Snowstorm in Pittsburgh
371
8
Spring in Harlem
379
10
from Banjo
Banjo's Ace of Spades
389
6
from Banana Bottom
395
15
from Quicksand
410
50
Nella Larsen
from Passing
460
26
from The Closing Door
486
15
Angelina Weld Grimke
The Typewriter
501
10
Dorothy West
from The Dark Princess
511
26
W. E. B. Du Bois
from The Walls of Jericho
537
32
Rudolph Fisher
from Tropic Death
Eric Walrond
The Wharf Rats
549
9
The Yellow One
558
11
Smoke, Lilies and Jade
569
16
Richard Bruce Nugent
Luani of the Jungles
585
44
Langston Hughes
from Not Without Laughter
Thursday Afternoon
592
7
from The Ways of White Folks
Father and Son
599
20
The Blues I'm Playing
619
10
Cordelia the Crude
629
4
Wallace Thurman
Harlem: A Forum of Negro Life
633
3
from The Blacker the Berry...
636
13
from Infants of the Spring
649
6
from Black No More
655
12
George Schuyler
from God Sends Sunday
667
7
Arna Bontemps
from Black Thunder
674
6
from One Way to Heaven
680
15
Countee Cullen
Drenched in Light
695
8
Zora Neale Hurston
Color Struck
703
16
Jonah's Gourd Vine
719
10
from Mule-Bone
729
10
Zora Neale Hurston
Langston Hughes
Biographical Notes
739
29
Acknowledgments
768