Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • pt. 1. Aesthetics and the new Negro
  • African American representations on stage : minstrel performances and Hurston's dream of a "real" Negro theatre / Mónica González Caldeiro
  • No Negro Renaissance : Hubert H. Harrison and the role of the new Negro literary critic / Ousmane Kirumu Power-Greene
  • It's all sacred music : Duke Ellington, from the Cotton Club to the cathedral / Frank A. Salamone
  • pt. 2. Class and place in Harlem
  • "So the girl marries" : class, the black press, and the Du Bois-Cullen wedding of 1928 / Jacqueline C. Jones
  • The meaning and significance of Southern tradition in Rudolph Fisher's stories / Aija Poikāne-Daumke
  • Back to Harlem : abstract everyday labor during the Harlem Renaissance / Jacob S. Dorman
  • pt. 3. Literary icons reconsidered
  • Jessie Redmon Fauset reconsidered / Claire Oberon Garcia
  • Speak it into existence : James Weldon Johnson's God's trombones and the power of self-definition in the new Negro Harlem Renaissance / McKinley Melton
  • Border crossings : the diasporic travels of Claude McKay and Zora Neale Hurston / Myriam J.A. Chancy
  • The search for self in Wallace Thurman's The blacker the berry : color, class, and community / Martha E. Cook
  • pt. 4. Gender constructions
  • Jack Johnson, Paul Robeson, and the hypermasculine African American Übermensch / Paula Marie Seniors
  • Between Black gay men : artistic collaboration and the Harlem Renaissance in Brother to brother / Shawn Anthony Christian
  • pt. 5. Politics and the new Negro
  • Perspectives on interwar culture : remapping the new Negro era / Perry Hall
  • "Harlem globe-trotters" : Black sojourners in Stalin's Soviet Union / Maxim Matusevich
  • Afterword.