Escape from New York: The New Negro Renaissance beyond Harlem

Contents

Foreword ix Robin D. G. Kelley Introduction: New Negroes Forging a New World 1 Davarian L. Baldwin I. THE DIASPORIC OUTLOOK 1. “Brightest Africa” in the New Negro Imagination 31 Jeannette Eileen Jones 2. Cuban Negrismo, Mexican Indigenismo: Contesting Neocolonialism in the New Negro Movement 53 David Luis-Brown 3. An International African Opinion: Amy Ashwood Garvey and C. L. R. James in Black Radical London 77 Minkah Makalani II. NEW (NEGRO) FRONTIERS 4. The New Negro’s Brown Brother: Black American and Filipino Boxers and the “Rising Tide of Color” 105 Theresa Runstedtler 5. The New Negro of the Pacific: How African Americans Forged Solidarity with Japan 127 Yuichiro Onishi 6. “A Small Man in Big Spaces”: The New Negro, the Mestizo, and Jean Toomer’s Southwest 157 Emily Lutenski III. THE GARVEY MOVEMENT 7. Making New Negroes in Cuba: Garveyism as a Transcultural Movement 183 Frank Guridy Contents 8. Reconfiguring the Roots and Routes of New Negro Activism: The Garvey Movement in New Orleans 205 Claudrena Harold IV. ENGENDERING THE EXPERIENCE 9. Black Modernist Women at the Parisian Crossroads 227 Jennifer M. Wilks 10. A Mobilized Diaspora: The First World War and Black Soldiers as New Negroes 247 Chad Williams 11. Climbing the Hilltop: In Search of a New Negro Womanhood at Howard University 271 Treva Lindsey 12. New Negro Marriages and the Everyday Challenges of Upward Mobility 291 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 313 Charles Lester 14. New Negroes at the Beach: At Work and Play outside the Black Metropolis 335 Andrew W. Kahrl VI. HOME TO HARLEM 15. “Home to Harlem” Again: Claude McKay and the Masculine Imaginary of Black Community 361 Thabiti Lewis 16. Not Just a World Problem: Segregation, Police Brutality, and New Negro Politics in New York City 381 Shannon King VII. SPEAKEASY: REFLECTING ON THE NEW NEW NEGRO STUDIES 17. The Conjunctural Field of New Negro Studies 401 Michelle Ann Stephens 18. Underground to Harlem: Rumblings and Clickety-Clacks of Diaspora 415 Mark Anthony Neal 19. The Gendering of Place in the Great Escape 421 T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting Acknowledgments 429 Contributors 431 Index 435 This page intentionally left blank ...