...Tommy Lott Duke University Press 2000 Du Bois and Locke on the Scientific Study of the Negro Tommy Lott The Souls of Black Folk has been canonized as Du Bois’s literary masterpiece. But, given all that it contains...

... . After our session and before the conference ended, Sir Bové surprised, and honored, me with an invitation to prepare and submit a review of Jeffrey C. Stewart's (2018) The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke for consideration for publication in the journal. I knew of the publication of Stewart's book...

...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...

... to the daily conditions of Black life in America. Long a poet of daily Black life, Brooks announces via her poetry an aesthetics committed to, in the words of Langston Hughes, “the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom‐tom beating in the Negro soul — the tom‐tom of revolt against...

..., a property-in-slaves. The article traces the emergence of “Negro music” as an anomalous form extending from the body of a sounding property, slave, whose status as a living thing owning a viable audibility served to heighten the sense of an unobtainable musicality. This unobtainability is part and parcel...

..., the persistent use of the word Neger , which translates as both “Negro” and “nigger” but has been silently neutralized in English translation. © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. W. G...

... on the moral level I propose that we view the whole of American life as a drama acted out upon the body of a Negro giant, who, lying trussed up like Gulliver, forms the stage and the scene upon which the action unfolds. If we examine the beginnings of the Colonies the application...

... century and the systematic study of what was then known as the Negro experience and condition, which over time became first 5983 b2 27:1 / sheet 128 of 237 Black studies, then Afro-American studies, and, recently, Africana studies...

... in the 1959 volume of Dissent, Hannah Arendt questioned the wisdom of the NAACP for placing children on the front lines during the 1957 school integration crisis in Little Rock, Arkansas. Insisting on her ‘‘sympathy for the cause of the Negroes as for all oppressed or under-privileged peoples Arendt...

... immanent, though sweeping, outline of the situation of the American intellectual scene: One further phenomenon in the United States is worth studying, and that is the formation of a surprising number of negro intellectuals who absorb American culture and technology. It is worth...

... and least expected to survive its course. This is precisely how the dean of Harvard’s Lawrence Scientific School, Nathaniel Shaler, defined the ‘‘Negro problem’’ in 1884. The force of that definition played no small part in legiti- mating President McKinley’s domestic policy, and in convincing Trotsky...

... thought they did. Let me turn briefly to the second volume of Kant’s Physical Geogra- phy (1802) and its account of Africa and the ‘‘true Negro 6 What is worth repeating from this text? What sorts of nuggets of empirical wisdom should I extract from this text? Shall I repeat Kant’s opening...

... of Ph.D. theses) submitted to the University of Berlin with a publication, The Philadelphia Negro, that came out of Atlanta University. Although she has occupied her post for many decades—serving both the gov- ernment of the GDR and now that of the reunified Germany—she had never come across anything...

... critical review of Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka’s Blues People: ‘‘It is possible that any viable theory of Negro American culture obligates us to fashion a more adequate theory of American culture as a whole 2 Herein, then, I can state the cen- tral theoretical proposition of this essay...

... of the idea for this issue of boundary 2. I had begun to write a piece on the theory of language entailed in Ellison’s understanding of the blues as an ironic practice of signification in which experience has no categorical foundation. In particular, I was trying to think about how the Negro, ever...

... 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...

... Pleasure called on Ellison to clarify ‘‘the way in which you as a Negro writer have vaulted the parochial limitations of most Negro fictiona question whose presumptions about ‘‘Negro fiction’’ I hope have withered over the past forty years. Answering that it was ‘‘a matter of attitude and calmly...

... distinctions that should not be made in haste if America were to think more critically about the racial designations that perniciously divide rather than unite the United States.4 3. See especially a letter originally published in Ebony, ‘‘A Letter to the Leaders in the Negro Race’’ (107–12), as well...

...—no woman's hand, no negro's hand, but bitted bridle-curb to check and guide the furious and unbending will—I crying not to her, to it; speaking to it through the negro, the woman, only because of the shock which was not yet outrage because it would be terror soon, expecting and receiving no answer because we...

... colored world, Self-sufficient and provincial. —W. E. B. Du Bois, ‘‘My Evolving Program for Negro Freedom in What the Negro Wants Although W. E. B. Du Bois’s life has been examined under a schol- arly microscope for the past two decades, his two years of graduate study in Berlin...