The Great War and the Culture of the New Negro

Credits

Credits “Negro Soldiers.” Richard Wright Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature , Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Used by permission of Julia Wright. “Negro Hero.” Gwendolyn Brooks. Reprinted by consent of Brooks Permissions . All James VanDerZee photographs used by permission of Donna VanDerZee . “Destroy This Mad Brute.” Art Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin. Illustration from Singing Soldiers used by permission of the British Library . “The Return of Lieutenant Reese Europe,” from American Smooth by Rita Dove. Used by Permission of W. W. Norton and Company, Inc. “The Colored Soldier” and “I, Too” from The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes, copyright 1994 by the Estate of Langston Hughes. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. “Sam Smiley,” from The Collected Poems of Sterling A. Brown, edited by Michael S. Harper. Copyright 1980 by Sterling A. Brown. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers. A portion of chapter 3 appeared in the Winter 2005 issue of Modern Fiction Studies, and a portion of chapter 5 appeared in Modernism and Mourning, edited by Patricia Rae (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2007). Permission is gratefully acknowledged to reproduce material from those sources. ...