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THE TRUSTEES OF THE JOHN

F.

SLATER FUND

Occasional Papers No. 26

A DECADE
of;^:,\.

NEGRO

SELP-Sg^F^ESSION

r
Compiled by

ALAIN LOCKE
Professor of Philosophy, Houjard University, Washington, D. C.

"With a Foreword by

HOWARD

W.

ODUM

DiredtoT of the School of Public Welfare, University of ISIorth Carolina

1928

A DECADE
OF

NEGRO

SELF-EXPRESSION
Compiled by

ALAIN LOCKE
Professor of Phibsophy,

Howard

University, Washington, D. C.

With

Foreword by

HOWARD

W.

ODUM

DiredtoT of the School of Public Welfare, University of North Carolina

1928

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30

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Foreword

The untouched
Great

picture of the

American Negro's
immediately
I

cultural

development during the

decade

following

the

War
and

has nowhere, so far as

know, been presented so

self-expression
re-

directly

effectively as in the story of

vealed in the major writings of contemporary

Negro authors.
It is vivid,

And
tual
it

the story

is

convincing and satisfying.

It

fac-

and

objective.

has the advantage of being artistic and

traits

does not confuse or identify racial

with cultural forms.

Presentation in this form also eliminates the

ties

common

liabili-

found

in the

human

factors of prejudice, limited observa-

tion,

and inadequate knowledge.

a century, the rise of an epoch, the aftermath

The turn of

of a conflict, the stirrings of a social process

these are al-

ways of importance in their elemental significance to people and nation. This is particularly true of the Negro. In no aspect of the American scene has recent transformation been more marked or development more accelerated perhaps than that in which the intellectual Negro has played his part. To
say that
it

is

an unusual record
to

is

commonplace.
renaissance
hopes,

Professor
as

Roliert E.

Park has referred

life,

this

new

philosophy of

a rational basis of
social traits.

new

new

attitudes

and new
thinks,

racial

and

It is

important, therefore, he

to

judge Negro literature as an "integral part of a

single tradition, arid 'as a unique collective experience."

Dr. Locke, in the present paper, has well referred to the

new
is,

expression as a sort of composite picture of the

spirit

new Negro
life.

mind and
tion.
It is

reflecting

its

influence
It is It is

upon Negro

It

of course, not entirely new.

old and
it

a development, a

summait

is

new.

exceptional and

is

also

representative as

may

well be seen

from
life

the remarkably large

felt

num])er of younger Negroes

who have

the creative urge.

From

every

state, in

every walk of

they have tried.

They

Foreword

The record presented in this Occasional Paper which Dr. Dillard offers among the publications of the Slater Fund is one index of the measured suchave failed and they have succeeded.
cesses.

Interpretative
in

comment
the

in this

foreword would scarcely be

of the paper.

harmony with

form and
tliere.

spirit

One may,

however, look at the picture and report some of the things

which he thinks he sees

Literar}- portraits reflecting a

new

realism.

new frankness and courage

to

face

facts

without fear, excitement, or apologies.

the rediscovery

Pride and artistry in

rich folk-background

and interpretation of a

of the race.

Acclaim of youthful authors, valued and valuable,

but not infallible or supremely mature.

remarkable quanti-

tative achievement, yet expecting a qualitative sequel.

new

understanding of the challenge to achieve universal, as well as

Race consciousness and urge alongside integral participation in American life and cultural development. A race and a national epoch. The promise of balance and poise in an over-enthusiastic and highly charged atmosphere. A new tolerance, charity, and patience. A mellowed bitterness. A mature vision of racial co-operation, race development and understanding. A new outlook and with it
racial,

standards of excellence.

new

zest, well

tempered by the twin forces of opportunity

and obligation.

Howard W. Odum.
Chapel
Hill,
1,

N. C.

June

1928.

Decade

of

Negro

Self Expression

By Alain Locke,

Howard
This pamphlet
is little

University
list

more than an annotated

of books

written by Negroes since the outbreak of the

World War.

With
view

it

as a guide, however, the

launch out on his

in the field
if

own

quest for the

life

modern minded reader may new facts and points of

of Negro

expectation,

he

persists, of

making

and experience, with the definite his improved knowledge

the

of the Negro part of that

new understanding of
this

world and

human mands of
of
spirit

nature which today the changing social order deus

all.

During

period the

Negro mind and

life

have been revolutionized; no province of human

has

been subject to greater change, few as great.

Here
call

in this

new body of
Negro"
is

cultural

self-expression

is

the

portrait

of

the

changed and changing Negro.

spirit reflecting its influences

What we

today

the ''new

new mind and upon Negro life. How distinctive, how new and promising this new spiritual world which the Negro mind is creating and into which it is passing, many will never know. For many minds still halt at the wall of prejudice. It is noteworthy and fortunate that the Negro spirit, once in the same predicament with respect to itself and an outlook on life, has found a door, and passed he.yond blind controversy to lucid understanding. A young Negro poet puts it
just the composite picture of this

We
It is

are not

come

to

wage

a strife

Of swords upon

this hill.
life

not wise to waste our

will

Against the stubborn

But we would
Beating a

die, as

some have done,

way

for the rising sun.

Decade of Negro Self Expression

think and hope, will leap the self-imposed

Modern America, we
barriers
;

will find or

make an open door through which

pass to a voyage of social exploration and discovery.

so, there will

it may And if

light

on the

come as a result of the venture more Negro, but a new vision and practical faith in denot only
life

mocracy.

No
his

one rightly aware of the changes in Negro

would put
as

trust today in indirect information or casual

observation

this

means of knowing the Negro. There is only one way to now, and that is the direct approach, the immediate firsthand study of Negro self-expression and cultural self -revelation.

More

material has been produced in the last decade than

Negro literature has in two or three preceding generations. grown by leaps and bounds, and its outstanding exponents are, apart from their racial influence and significance, in many inOne stances figures and factors in general American culture.
result of this
is

a revolutionized conception of the Negro, by

others as well as himself, considered in the role not of an imitator

and assimilator of American

it.

civilization merely, but of

an active contributor to
morial stereotype"
"that the

In contrast with "the old imme-

Negro

the gate of the

civilization, that

to use James Weldon Johnson's words America is nothing more than a beggar at nation, waiting to be thrown the crumbs of
in

he is here only to receive; to be shaped into something new and unquestionably better" comes this new

"awakening to the truth

that the

Negro
is

is

an active and im-

portant force in American life; that he

a creator as well as

a creature; that he has given as well as received, and that he

is

the potential giver of larger and richer contributions."

This
sions.

will be the first of

an

open-minded reader's concluadvance

ele-

His second

will be the realization that the

ments of Negro

life

today, instead of being regarded as en-

tirely "exceptional," are felt,

by the Negro

at least,

and increas-

ingly by intelligent observ^ers generally, to be "representative."

Genius

is

always the

elite,

but

Negro genius

is

nowadays no

more exceptional than

the genius of other peoples with a func-

Decade oe Negro Self Expression

tioning sense of .s^roup tradition and

far in advance of the multitude,
it

common

destiny.

Thouc^h

acts consciously as their ad-

vance-s^uard.

Its

attainments bring direct pride and inspira-

and file, who with the newly acquired sense of and participate in the recognition and general enlightenment which come in ever increasing measure. Much more important than the present achievement is the quickening and releasing influence it will undoubtedly exert for the future. And so we may speak more legitimately than ever of the endeavor and achievement of individuals as Negro effort and Negro progress. One important thing will instantly be noticed by the keen observer. That is a general desire in this forward thrust toward cultural expression and achievement, not to be patterned entirely by the general drift and trend of colorless conformity A half to American life, a desire not to be merely imitative. generation back, assimilation was the prevailing idea in Negro
tion to the rank
solidarity share

endeavor.

Now

it

seems pointed in the direction of distinctive

achievement; a capitalization of the race's

particular inheritances of

endowments and

temperament and experience.

to the segregation reaction of

How;

ever this

movement

is

not separatist in a limiting sense

it

is

no voluntary counterpart
tolerant
tion

an

in-

dominant majority.

Rather

is

it

a minority promo-

move

an attempt
to
like

to capitalize

and bring one's own stock

to par,

and

have a quotable market rating and a recognized

market standing.

two written before 1914 has been inBooker T. Washington's "Up from Slavery" or "Souls of Black Folk" by Doctor Du Bois, because within this period in which we are interested they have established themselves as Negro classics and come into the prime of their influence. But ninety per cent or more of the
occasional book or
list,

An

cluded in the

list

is

of quite recent date, registering in fact the reoriented

last

views of the

few years and our younger generation,

art,

who

have

in general

turned from propaganda to

field

from

cultural

parade to self-expression, and in the

of social discussion

Decade of Negro Seef Expression

from controversy and apologetics to scientific social analysis and constructive social criticism. With these few compass points of direction in hand, the
reader

may make

his

own

excursion

in this

venture of

human

exploration and understanding.

He

can keep a true and prosocial

gressive course through no matter

what

fog or storm of
to pass
;

partisan controversy his particular path

may have

he

can also be assured that he will come out to his great satisfaction at

some

definite port of conclusion,

no matter how often

It

he has to alter his views or take fresh bearings on the way.

is

no hardship

to

have to take a "new Negro" into account

when one has

because there

to take stock of a
is

new Europe,
the reason

"new world" anyway. It is new America, and a "new

the

South"

in fact, that there is a

is

changed and changing Negro.

Perhai)s also this

why

most hopeful and for-

ward movement of the social mind on the race question is coming from youth reaching out in sympathy and understanding to the younger generation Negro.
It

pays to revise one's

opinions about anything these days, but especially on a subject

are the obsolete superstitions

where the greatest obstacles to social peace and goodwill and outworn stereotypes that
still

on both sides
sist side

cloud our social thinking and warp our social

reactions in race relations in America.

But these cannot perand that best

is

by side with the enlightenment that must come when

capitalizes himself at his
l>est,

the

Negro

widely

known and

appreciated.

Social Analysis

and Discussion
:

Your Negro BrawlEy, Benjamin GriFEitii New York: Macmillan, 1918.

Africa and the War.

Neighbor.

New York:

Duffield

&

Co., 1918.

Clark, Jessie McDougal: Nezv Day for

the Colored

Wo-

man Worker.
:

New

York, 1922.

The Education of Negro Ministers. Daniee, W. a. York; Doran Co., 1925.

GarvEy,

New

Amy

J.

The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus

:

Garvey.

New York

Universal Publishing Co., 1923.

record of radical
:

Negro thought.

HaynES, George
1923.

TJic Trend of the Races. New York, E. program of inter-racial attack on the race

problem.

Harrison, Hubert H. Poro Press, 1920.

:

When

Africa Azmkes.

New York

A
in

radical expression in terms of

the race problem as a world problem.

King, Wielis: The Negro

American

Life.

New York:

Methodist Book Concern, 1926.

ual for inter-racial work.

group study man-

MiivLER,

Kelly:

Out of

the

House of Bondage.

Chicago:

Neale

&

Co., 1914.
to Conscience.

The Appeal

New

York: Macmillan, 1918.

:

The Everlasting

Stain.

ciated publishers, 1924.

Washington, D. C. The AssoPolemic discussion of the is-

sues from 1914 to date.

Rogers,

J.

A.

From Superman

to

Man.

New York Lenox

:

Publishing Co., 1917.

superiority.

A polemic

on the notion of race

Roman, Charles V.
Philadelphia:

American

Civilization

and the Negro.

F. A. Davis Co., 1916.

10

A
York

Decade of Negro Self Expression

J.: Negro Migration and Oxford Press, 1920.
:

Scott,

Emmett
:

the

War.

New

Wesley, Charles. Negro Labor in the United States. NewYork: The Vanguard Press, 1927. The first important study of the economic role of the Negro in
America.

The Negro's
BlydEn, W. E.
PhilHps,
:

Cultural Background

African Life and Customs.

1908.

London
of

C.

M.

scholarly vindication

African

folk-ways.

Dubois,

W.

Holt
the

Burghardt: The Negro. New York: Henry The best general survey to date of Negro's past history and contributions to human
E.

&

Co., 1915.

civilization.

The A}iswer of Africa in "What is York Duffield & Co., 1926.

:

Ciznlisationt"

New
of

comparison

African ideas of
Ellis,

life

with other ideals of culture.

in

George W.
rary

Negro Culture
Co., 1914.
tribal life.

West Africa.

New

York: Neale &

study of the contempo-

West African
:

The Black Problem. Lovedale Press, Jabavu, D. D. T. Africa, 1920. A native African leader's analySouth
sis

of the colonial situation.

Johnson, Samuel: The History of the Yoruhas, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the British Protectorate. London: J. Routledge & Sons, 1921. The
most complete African
tribal

history extant.

MolEma,

S.

M.

The Bantu, Past and

Present.

Edinburgh:

W.

Green

&

Son, 1920.

An

exhaustive study of this

African federation of Peoples.

PlaaTjE, Solomon
don

J.

Sechuna

Proverbs,

with

Literal

Translations and their European Equivalents.

:

Lon-

Keegan, Paul

&

Trench, 1916.

Decade of Negro Self Expression

Historical Studies

11

BraweEy, Benjamin G.

Short History of the American Negro. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1919. A short practicable manual of Negro history in America.
:

Social History of the American Negro.

New York:

Macmillan, 1921.
survey.

valuable interpretative historical

Cromwell, John W.
1914.

Washington, D. C.

The Negro in American History. The American Negro Academy,

:

The New Negro, his Political, Civic Pickens, William and Mental Status. Chicago: Neale Pub. Co., 1916.
:

Scott,

Emmett

J.

The American Negro

1919.

in the

World War.

Privately printed,
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Steward, T. J. The Haitian Revolution, 1791-1804. York: Thos. Crowell, 1914.

Taylor, A. A.
1926.
:

New

Carolina.

The Negro During Reconstruction in South The Associated Publishers, Washington

:

The Negro

in the Reconstruction
:

ington, D. C.

The

Washof Virginia. Associated Publishers, 1927.

Collections of

Negro Poetry

CuLLEN, CounTEE (Editor): Caroling Dusk. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1927. An anthology of younger
generation poetry.

Johnson, James Weldon (Editor) The Book of American Negro Poetry. New York Harcourt, Brace & A comprehensive anthology of Negro Co., 1922. poetry, with a valuable introduction on "Negro Creative
: :

Genius."

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Decade of Negro Self Expression

:

Locke, Alain (Editor)

Poets Series.

New

Four Negro Poets: Pamphlet York Simon & Schuster, 1927.

:

popular handbook of the most representative current

verse.

Negro

Negro Poets
Braithwaite,
Leaves.

Wm.

Stanley:

The House
Co., 1908.
:

of

Falling

Boston: Luce

&

Sandy Star and Other Poems. Boston The Brimmer The original poems of the well known Co., 1928. poetry critic and editor of "The Anthologies of Magazine Verse."

CarmichaEl, J. S. The Comhill

From

the

Heart of a Folk.

Boston:

Co., 1918.
:

Cotter, Joseph S., Jr. Poems. Boston:

The Bank of Gideon and Other The Cornhill Co., 1918.

CuLLEN, CouNTEE:
1925.

Color.

New York:
Harper

Harper

&

Brothers,

Copper Sun.

New York:

&

Brothers, 1927.

The

verse of a leading contemporary poet.

Dunbar, Paul Laurence

Laurence Dunbar.
1920.

The Collected Poems of Paul New York Dodd, Mead & Co.,
: :

Johnson, Charles Bertram Songs of The Cornhill Co., 1918.

:

My People.
New

Boston

Johnson, Fenton
Songs of
test

Visions of the Dusk.

York:

1915.

the Soil.

New

York, 1916.

The poetry

of pro-

and

radical expression.

Johnson, Georgia Douglas:

Other Poems.
Bronze.

Boston:
:

Boston

The Heart of a Woman and The Cornhill Co., 1918. The Brimmer Co., 1922. The leading

Negro woman

poet.

Decade oe Negro Self Expression

:

13

Johnson, James Weedon Fifty Years and After and Other Poems. Boston: The Cornhill Co., 1917.
God's Trombones.

Seven Negro Sermons

Press,

in Verse.
first,

New
Negro

York:

The Viking

1927.

The

an im-

portant contribution of the middle period of

poetry, and the latter, one of the outstanding contributions of the recent school.

Hill, Leslie Pinckney:

ton:

The Wings of Oppression. Bos-

The

Cornhill Co., 1917.

Toussaint L'Ouz'erture, a Dramatic History in 5 Acts.

Boston

Christopher Press, 1928.

:

Hughes, Langston
Knopf, 1926.
Fine Clothes
1927.

The Weary
Jew.

Blues.

New York
Alfred

Alfred

to the

New York:

Knopf,

One
poets,

of the most representative contemporary

Negro
tions.

known

especially for his folk interpreta-

Laviaux, Leon

The Ebon Muse and Other Poems, translated by J. M. O'Hara, Portland, Me., 1914. The most brilliant of contemporary foreign Negro poets.
: :

McKay, Claude Harlem

Brace

Shadozvs.

New

York, Harcourt,

&

Co., 1922.

representative present genera-

tion poet.

Shackelford,

Wm.

H.

Crackling Bread and Other Poems.

Philadelphia, 1916.

Late dialect poems.

Fiction

and Belles Lettres

a novel. Chicago: Neale

Ashby,

Wm. M.

Redder Blood,

&

Co., 1916.

Braithwaite,
Small,

Wm. Stanley: The Poetic Maynard & Co. 1917.

Year.

Boston:

The Annual Anthologies of Magazine Verse, 1913-1927. Boston: Small, Maynard & Co. 1913-1918. Boston:

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Decade of Negro
Co.,

Sei.f

Expression

The Brimmer
of any Negro

1918-1927. Representing the most

significant sustained literary

contemporary contribution

man
G.
:

of

letters.

BrawlEy, Benjamin

The Negro

in Literature

and Art.

New York:

Duffield
:

&

Co., 1918.

Chestnutt, Charles W. Boston: Houghton

The House Behind

Mifflin

the Cedars.

Co.,

1900.
:

The Marrozv of Tradition. Boston Houghton Mifflin The Re-construction, its problems and setCo., 1901. tings, pictured by the pioneer modern Negro novelist.
Cotter, Joseph
S.,

Sr.

Negro

Tales.

New
of

York: Cos-

mopolitan Press, 1912.

DuBois, W. E. Burghardt The Chicago: McClurg, 1898.

:

Souls

Black
of

Folk.

classic

intimate

spiritual interpretation of the

Negro.

The Quest of
Clurg, 1911.
ton.

the Silver Fleece, a novel.

Chicago
its

novel of the South and

epic

Mccot-

Darkivater.

New York:
The Stratford

Harcourt, Brace "Souls

of
Co., 1924.

&

Co.,

1920.

Interpretations in the vein of

Black

Folk."

Boston

The

Gift of Black Folk. The Stratford Co., 1924. An account of the contribution of black folk to the mak-

ing of America.

Black Princess.
1928.

New York:

Harcourt,

Brace

&

Co.,

problem novel of the "intellectual"

class

on

an international background.

Fauset, Jessie R.

T/;cr<7

is

Confusion.

New York:

Boni

&

Liveright, 1924.

novel of the educated classes in

setting.

a Philadelphia

and

New York

Grimke, Angelina: Rachel,

hill

Drama.

Boston: The Corn-

Co., 1920.

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:

15

The Autobiography of an ExJohnson, James Weedon Colored Man. New York: Sherman, French Co. 1912. Reprinted in The Bkie Jade Library, Alfred Knopf,

New

York, 1927.

record of a typical personal ex-

perience in the upper strata of

Negro

Life.

LarsEn, Neela
ture, also

Quicksands.

New York:

Co., 1928.

life-history of a

Alfred Knopf & Negro woman of cul-

on the international background.

:

Locke, Aeain (Editor) The New Negro: An InterpretaNew York: A. & C. Boni, 1925. A compention. dium of the contemporary cultural expression of the "New Negro."

Maran, Rene:

Batouala

(Prix

Concourt
1922.

Novel,

1921).

New
Kongo,
Boni,

York:

Thos.

Seltzer,

Novel of African

Life.

New York

A.

&

C.

1928. African novels of the distinguished French Negro author, the former being the Goncourt

prize novel of 1921.

McKay, CeaudE: Home

Bros., 1928.
istically.

to

Harlem.

New York:

Harper

&

novel of

Negro "low

life," told real-

Neeson, Alice Dunbar (Editor)

Eloquence.

Masterpieces of Negro

New
:

York, 1914.
novel.

Pickens, Wieeiam
Philadelphia:

The Vengeance of the Gods, a A M. E. Book Concern, 1922.

a novel.

Toomer, Jean Cane,

:

New York

Boni

&

Liveright,

1923.

brilliant poetic rendition of the

South and the

Negro

in modernistic vein.

Waerond, Eric: Tropic

Death.

Boni

&

Liveright,

1926.

Stories of the Caribbean.

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Fire
in

White, Walter:
Flight.

the

Flint.

New York:

Alfred

Knopf, 1924.

New

York:

Alfred Knopf, 1926.

life.

Human

document novels of contemporary- Negro

Woodson, Carter

Negro Orators and Their Orations. Washington The Assoc. Publishers. An authoritative documentary record of Negro public
G. (Editor)
:

thought and

publicists.

1926.

Negro Biography
Alexander, Charles:
zvorth.

Battles

New York:

and Victories of Allen AllensSherman, French Co. 1914.

Andrews,

Wm. McCants:
Durham, N.

Sketch.

biography of the

John Merrick, a Biographical Seamons Press, 1920. The pioneer modern Negro business man.
C.
:

Bragg, George:

Men

of Maryland.

Baltimore, 1925.

Nota-

ble early publicists,

church and anti-slavery leaders.

Baptist

BrawlEy, Benjamin G.

Home

IVomen of Achievement. Mission Soc. Press, Boston, 1919.

:
:

Brown, Hallie Q.
women.
Bullock, Ralph W.

Homespun

Heroines.

Xenia,

Ohio

Aldine Pub. Co., 1927.

Biographies of noted Negro

In Spite of Handicaps. Publication, New York, 1927.

:

Y.

W.

C. A.

CoRROTHERS,
phy.

J.

D.

New

In Spite of the Handicap, an AutobiograYork: Doran, 1916.

:
:

Crawford, George W. Prince Hall and Jiis Follozvers. New An account of the York: Crisis Pub. Co., 1914. founder of Negro Masonry.
FausET,
lin

Arthur H.
Pub. Co.,

For Freedom. Philadelphia Frank1927. A modern school biographical

:

Decade of Negro Seef Expression

reader,
reflecting

17
of
the

supplementary

the

spirit

younger Negro mind.

Green, John

P.: Truth Stranger

Than

Fiction, an Autobi-

ography.

Cleveland, Ohio
:

Riehl Printing Co., 1920.

HaynEs, Elizabeth R.
Bois

Unsung Heroes.

New York Du:

&

Dill,

1921.

book of race biographies for

children.

HunTon, Addie W.

Two

Colored

Women

ivitJi

the
:

can Expeditionary Forces,

lyn Eagle Press, 1920.

Brooklyn, N. Y.

AmeriBrook-

Jabavu, D. D. T.
dale Press,

TJie Life of John Tengo Jabavu. South Africa, 1922.

:

Love-

Jones,

Laurence
York
:

C. Piney Woods and Fleming H. Revells, 1922.

school.

Its

Story.
story

Newof

The

backwoods

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