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Book SynopsisIn the midst of vast cultural and political shifts in the early twentieth century, politicians and cultural observers variously hailed and decried the rise of the "New Negro." This phenomenon was most clearly manifest in the United States through the outpouring of Black arts and letters and social commentary known as the Harlem Renaissance.
Trade Review"This anthology succeeds in liberating New Negro studies from Harlem and its traditional temporal, gender, and class confines."—Journal of African American History
"This collection of essays registers the polyvalent, internationalist, and coalition-building character of the New Negro movement more comprehensively than any other text to date. Escape from New York is essential reading for those who study and teach black modernism, black internationalism, and the Harlem Renaissance."—Cultural Critique
Table of ContentsContents
ForewordRobin D.G. KelleyIntroduction: New Negroes Forging a New WorldDavarian L. Baldwin
I. The Diasporic Outlook1. “Brightest Africa” in the New Negro ImaginationJeannette Eileen Jones2. Cuban Negrismo, Mexican Indigenismo: Contesting Neocolonialism in the New Negro MovementDavid Luis-Brown3. An International African Opinion: Amy Ashwood Garvey and C. L. R. James in Black Radical LondonMinkah Makalani
II. New (Negro) Frontiers4. The New Negro’s Brown Brother: Black American and Filipino Boxers and the “Rising Tide of Color”Theresa Runstedtler5. The New Negro of the Pacific: How African Americans Forged Solidarity with JapanYuichiro Onishi6. “A Small Man in Big Spaces”: The New Negro, the Mestizo, and Jean Toomer’s SouthwestEmily Lutenski
III. The Garvey Movement7. Making New Negroes in Cuba: Garveyism as a Transcultural MovementFrank Guridy8. Reconfiguring the Roots and Routes of New Negro Activism: The Garvey Movement in New OrleansClaudrena Harold
IV. Engendering the Experience9. Black Modernist Women at the Parisian CrossroadsJennifer Wilks10. A Mobilized Diaspora: The First World War and Black Soldiers as New NegroesChad Williams11. Climbing the Hilltop: In Search of a New Negro Womanhood at Howard UniversityTreva Lindsey12. New Negro Marriages and the Everyday Challenges of Upward MobilityAnastasia Curwood
V. Consumer Culture13. “You Just Can’t Keep the Music Unless You Move With It”: The Great Migration and the Black Cultural Politics of Jazz in New Orleans and ChicagoCharles Lester14. New Negroes at the Beach: At Work and Play Outside the Black MetropolisAndrew Kahrl
VI. Home to Harlem15. “Home to Harlem” Again: Claude McKay and the Masculine Imaginary of Black CommunityThabiti Lewis16. Not Just a World Problem: Segregation, Police Brutality, and New Negro Politics in New York CityShannon King
VIII. Speakeasy: Reflecting on the New New Negro Studies17. The Conjunctural Field of New Negro StudiesMichelle Ann Stephens18. Underground to Harlem: Rumblings and Clickety-Clacks of DiasporaMark Anthony Neal19. The Gendering of Place in the Great EscapeTracy Sharpley-Whiting
AcknowledgmentsContributorsIndex
