... by a raising generation of young “new” Negro artists, in still another writing, “The Social Origins of American Negro Art,” published in Modern Quarterly in 1925, Du Bois asserted the following, in the context of an especially nuanced discussion in which he distinguishes between art produced by Negroes...

...Jay Garcia This essay argues that “New Negro” and “Young American” writings from the early twentieth century reward rereading in concert with Antonio Gramsci’s concept of a “national-popular” and as instances of theoretical production in themselves. Focusing on the work of Randolph Bourne (1886...

... it. Simi- larly, he was extremely displeased with the essay contributed by Melville Herskovits to The New Negro. Herskovits argues that there are no Afri- can retentions in African American culture, a view he would later change— and one that was also criticized by Locke (RC, 97). In his commentary...

.... Dowling, William C. The Senses of the Text: Intensional Semantics and Literary Theory. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. Favor, J. Martin. Authentic Blackness: The Folk in the New Negro Renaissance.New...

...- ing Thomas, felt to renew again (Pound’s phrase would be makeitnew)yet also to transcend the genteel cultural nationalism of Alain Locke’s essay and anthology The New Negro (1925). With commentary that projects Afrocentric modernism’s interpreta- tions back through modernist reading...

... and Countee Cullen, choose to inhabit and adopt traditional (from Augustan to modernist) poetic forms and methods have less cachet within the “progressive” wing of the literary establishment and black poetry history than those who appear to use forms and adopt methods from “[New] Negro,” “black...

.... E. B. Du Bois, “Black Labor,” chap. 2 in The Gift of Black Folk: The Negroes in the Making of America, with an introduction by Glenda Carpio (New York: Oxford Uni- versity Press, 2007), 13–28. 2. W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk, ed. David W. Blight and Robert Gooding-­ Williams (1903...

... American’s acquisition of a new self.7 White Americans’ assumption of the blackface mask permitted Emerson’s self-made man to construct their open futures as the other to the Negro past. When they donned this mask, these self-reliant Americans dissociated from the previous identities they pro- jected...

... of the Negro, and the progressive professionalization of science in the universities, that Black studies was first launched in Black cultural organizations, such 4. Matthew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1994...

... agreed to give her space in a subsequent issue to reply to her critics, and in her response, Arendt elaborated her argument in the follow- ing way: The point of departure of my reflections was a picture in the news- papers, showing a Negro girl on her way home from a newly inte...

... de corps’’ that 3. Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks (New York: International Publishers, 1990), 21. Mustapha / Constituting Negative Geopolitics 175 Gramsci narrowly attributes to the traditional intellectual. This is to suggest that the Negro intellectual...

... than what way of thinking about the historical world has become the domineering habit of that power configuration. The full significance of Strauss and his acolytes is not as a coherent and distinct intellectual movement, or a new ideology of domination with a determined agenda to seize power...

...: An Introduction, trans. Robert Hurley (New York: Vin- tage Books, 1978), 152. 2. Ralph Ellison, ‘‘Blues People in Shadow and Act (New York: Signet Books/Random House, 1964), 246. See also Leroi Jones (Imamu Amiri Baraka), Blues People: Negro Music in White America (New York: William Morrow and Co., 1963...

... widespread in the world than we might have thought. Which leads Hegel to the most serious inadequacy of the Negro: the institution of slavery. When African Negroes are brought by the Europeans to the New World, the land of the future, in order to be sold into slavery, the result is only —or almost...

..., the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongo- lian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil8 Gilroy argues that 5. Correspondence of W. E. B. Du Bois, 1:29. 6. The Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois (New York: International Publishers, 1968), 183. Hereafter, this work is cited parenthetically...

... must fall either to his earliest important book, The Philadelphia Negro (1899), or to the much later Black Reconstruction (1935). Where Souls inspires and sug- gests new ways of thinking, Philadelphia Negro works through the factual account of the turn-of-the-century urban Negro. Yet to the same...

..., the contributions reflect a new and dis- tinctively rigorous engagement with Du Bois’s theoretical and philosophi- cal thought, drawing our attention to the ways in which Du Bois’s thinking about the ‘‘Negro problem’’ was an explicit effort to think about the problem- atic of historical agency in a manner...

... been ended, Mumford writes, by a war ‘‘between two forms of servitude, the slave and the machineThemachines won; and the war kept onThe slave question disappeared but the ‘Negro’ question remained 23 Mumford read the era’s abolitionism as unenlightened moral righteousness ‘‘oblivi- ous to the new...

... and symboli- cal archways of midnight he bedded with the women and paid them when he had the money, and when he did not have it he bedded them anyway and then told them that he was a negro. (223–24) 36. Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World (New York...

... have gained for my life’s work new hope and zeal. The Negro people shall yet stand among the honored of the world During his two years in Berlin, he was exhila- rated by the belief that he could have an impact on racial discrimination in America, yet he also despaired at the thought...