Table of Contents

Contents

Foreword

Robin D.G. Kelley

Introduction: New Negroes Forging a New World

Davarian L. Baldwin

I. The Diasporic Outlook

1. “Brightest Africa” in the New Negro Imagination

Jeannette Eileen Jones

2. Cuban Negrismo, Mexican Indigenismo: Contesting Neocolonialism in the New Negro Movement

David Luis-Brown

3. An International African Opinion: Amy Ashwood Garvey and C. L. R. James in Black Radical London

Minkah Makalani

II. New (Negro) Frontiers

4. The New Negro’s Brown Brother: Black American and Filipino Boxers and the “Rising Tide of Color”

Theresa Runstedtler

5. The New Negro of the Pacific: How African Americans Forged Solidarity with Japan

Yuichiro Onishi

6. “A Small Man in Big Spaces”: The New Negro, the Mestizo, and Jean Toomer’s Southwest

Emily Lutenski

III. The Garvey Movement

7. Making New Negroes in Cuba: Garveyism as a Transcultural Movement

Frank Guridy

8. Reconfiguring the Roots and Routes of New Negro Activism: The Garvey Movement in New Orleans

Claudrena Harold

IV. Engendering the Experience

9. Black Modernist Women at the Parisian Crossroads

Jennifer Wilks

10. A Mobilized Diaspora: The First World War and Black Soldiers as New Negroes

Chad Williams

11. Climbing the Hilltop: In Search of a New Negro Womanhood at Howard University

Treva Lindsey

12. New Negro Marriages and the Everyday Challenges of Upward Mobility

Anastasia Curwood

V. Consumer Culture

13. “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 Chicago

Charles Lester

14. New Negroes at the Beach: At Work and Play Outside the Black Metropolis

Andrew Kahrl

VI. Home to Harlem

15. “Home to Harlem” Again: Claude McKay and the Masculine Imaginary of Black Community

Thabiti Lewis

16. Not Just a World Problem: Segregation, Police Brutality, and New Negro Politics in New York City

Shannon King

VIII. Speakeasy: Reflecting on the New New Negro Studies

17. The Conjunctural Field of New Negro Studies

Michelle Ann Stephens

18. Underground to Harlem: Rumblings and Clickety-Clacks of Diaspora

Mark Anthony Neal

19. The Gendering of Place in the Great Escape

Tracy Sharpley-Whiting

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Index