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aesthetic experience, 4, 29–34, 40–44, 52– 59, 70–79, 93, 100–04, 107, 190–91 Alexander, Scholley Pace, 140 Barnes, Albert C., 70, 77–84 Bennett, Gwendolyn, 60, 114, 152 Birth of a Nation, 37 Boas, Franz, 102, 173 Braithwaite,William Stanley, 51–52,­62–63 Broun, Heywood, 78 Cane. See Toomer, Jean Chesnutt, Charles W., 50–52, 62–63, 131, 150 Civic Club, 60–62, 70–77, 118 Cohen, Octavius Roy, 125 Color. See Cullen, Countee Cotton States Exposition, 11–12 Crisis:as aesthetic regime 18–27, 37–38, 50–52, 77, 140, 150;review of Passing, 188;Symposium on Negro portrayal, 105, 117–18, 122–27, 138–39, 142 Cullen, Countee, 60;fictionalized in Infants of the Spring, 157;relation with Alain Locke, 142–49;relation with Langston Hughes, 110–13;relation withYolande Du Bois, 148;response to Symposium, 125–26;reviewed in Crisis, 170–71 Davis, John, 152 Dewey, John, 5 Dill, Augustus Granville, 118, 163 Douglas, Aaron, 114, 152, 154 Du Bois,W. E. B., 1–2, 4–7, 76, 79, 89, 140, 150, 152, 170, 177–78, 188, 195–96; aesthetic theories, 28–32;on Afri­ can aesthetics, 66–70;agitation, 22–24;on a black public, 63–65, 70–72;52–53; Civic Club, 60–62;“Criteria of Negro Art,” 19–20, 25–26, 127–39;primi­ tiv­ ism, 68–72;relation with Alain Locke, 76, 79, 89, 93, 119;relation with Booker T.Washington, 9–13, 18, 21– 22;relation with NAACP board, 50; religious allegories, 19–20, 40–48;Souls of Black Folk, 23–24, 28, 49, 120;on whiteness, 32–39 epideictic rhetoric, 98–105 Fauset, Jessie, 25, 60, 79, 101, 117–18, 122– 23, 142, 170, 178 Fire!!, 74, 152–56, 163 Fire in the Flint. See White,Walter Fisher, Rudolph, 60, 112, 175 Gift of Laughter, 79 Harlem, 140 Harper, Francis Watkins, 20 Hayes, Roland, 90 Hegel, G.W. F., 42, 55 Heyward, Du Bose, 124–25, 174 Hughes, Langston, 60, 94;blues aesthetic, 97–101, 111;involvement with queer Harlem, 100;Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain, 110–16;primitivism, 102–03, 112; Index 246 / Index Hurston, Zora Neale, 73–75, 114, 152, 154, 157, 163 Infants of the Spring. See Thurman,Wallace James,William, 5, 68 Johnson, Charles, S., 60, 77, 97, 117 Johnson, Georgia Douglas, 60 Johnson, James Weldon, 61, 97, 150, 152, 166, 173, 175, 196 Johnson, Rosamond, 174 Kellogg, Paul, 77, 82, 118 Kirchwey, Freda, 60, 96–98, 115 Knopf, Alfred, 122, 125, 139, 166, 176 Larsen, Nella, 7 Lewis, Sinclair, 78 Lewis,Theophilus, 105, 151 Lindsay,Vachel, 101 Locke, Alain R., 5, 60–61, 113–14, 140–41, 170, 178, 195;comment on­ Batouala, 93;correspondence with Countee Cullen, 142–48;correspondence with Zora Neale Hurston, 73– 76, 163;editor of New Negro, 84–95; philosophy of value, 79–83;relation with Survey Graphic, 77–78;relation with Wallace Thurman, 150–52, 157 Lynching, 25–26, 64 MacFall, Haldane, 122, 126 Malinowski, Bronislaw, 102 Maran, Rene, 93–94 Mason, Charlotte Osgood, 74, 90 McKay,Claude,26,60,94–95,101,108,178 Mencken, H. L., 60, 78, 103, 109, 124–25, 151, 175 NAACP, 7. See also Du Bois,W. E. B. Nigger Heaven. See Van Vechten, Carl Nugent, Richard Bruce, 114, 140–42, 148, 152, 154–56, 175 O’Neill, Eugene, 60, 69 Opportunity, 50, 60, 77, 90, 110, 117–18, 154, 188 Ovington, Mary White, 34, 50, 124–25 pragmatism, 5. primitivism, 96. See also Du Bois,W. E. B.; Hughes, Langston;Schuyler, George propaganda, 1, 6, 27, 51, 94 race:relation to affect, 14–18;tropes of, 13–14 Red Summer, 3, 26, 37, 45 Reiss,Winold, 79 RisingTide of Color AgainstWhiteWorld Supremacy ,The, 48 Robeson, Paul, 112, 174 Roosevelt,Theodore, 58 Santayana, George, 28;discussion of Sense of Beauty, 28–34, 38, 41–44, 80 satire, 6, 103–05 Schuyler, George, 6, 138, 151, 196 Souls of Black Folk. See Du Bois,W. E. B. Spingarn, Joel, 34, 50, 126 sublime, 43–44, 47, 65, 102;taste, 2, 76, 86, 91–93, 100, 117, 122–24, 126, 136, 139, 143, 149, 155, 167, 169, 176, 178, 191, 195 Tanner, Henry, 173 There Is Confusion. See Fauset, Jessie Thompson, Louise, 147, 225n117 Thurman,Wallace, 7, 113–14, 195 Toomer, Jean, 60, 94–95, 112, 145, 173 Urban League, 50, 77, 117 Van Doren, Carl, 60–61 Van Doren, Irita, 168, 176, 226n7 Van Vechten, Carl, 78, 91, 98...

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