THE NEW NEGRO

An authoritative anthology tracing the history of one of the most important concepts Black people drew on to challenge the brutal, t otalizing system of Jim Crow racism. This book brings together a wealth of readings on the metaphor of the New Negro, charting how generations of thinkers debated its meaning and seized on its potency to stake out an astonishingly broad and sometimes contradictory range of ideological positions. It features dozens of newly unearthed pieces by major figures such as W. E.