Introduction Part I: Aesthetics and the New Negro Chapter 1. African American Representations on the Stage: Minstrel Performances and Hurston's Dream of a "Real" Negro Theater Chapter 2. No Negro Renaissance: Hubert H. Harrison and the Role of the New Negro Literary Critic Chapter 3. It's All Sacred Music: Duke Ellington, from the Cotton Club to the Cathedral Part II: Class and Place in Harlem Chapter 4. "So the Girl Marries": Class, the Black Press, and the Du Bois - Cullen Wedding of 1928 Chapter 5. The Meaning and Significance of Southern Tradition in Rudolph Fisher's Stories Chapter 6. Back to Harlem: Abstract and Everyday Labor during the Harlem Renaissance Part III: Literary Icons Reconsidered Chapter 7.

Jessie Redmon Fauset Reconsidered Chapter 8. Speak It into Existence: James Weldon Johnson's God's Trombones and the Power of Self- Definition in the New Negro Harlem Renaissance Chapter 9. Border Crossings: The Diasporic Travels of Claude McKay and Zora Neale Hurston Chapter 10. The Search for Self in Wallace Thurman's The Blacker the Berry : Color, Class, and Community Part IV: Gender Constructions Chapter 11. Jack Johnson, Paul Robeson, and the Hypermasculine African American Übermensch Chapter 12. Between Black Gay Men: Artistic Collaboration and the Harlem Renaissance in Brother to Brother Part V: Politics and the New Negro Chapter 13. Perspectives on Interwar Culture: Remapping the New Negro Era Chapter 14. "Harlem Globe- Trotters": Black Sojourners in Stalin's Soviet Union Afterword List of Contributors Index.