people

• Ridgely Torrence
  • White poet and editor. Wrote 'Three Plays for a Negro Theater'.
  • 1917: premiere of Granny Maumee, The Rider of Dreams, and Simon the Cyrenian: Plays for a Negro Theater by Torrence.
    • black actores conveying complex human emotions and yearnings. rejected stereotypes.
• Claude McKay
  • Black writer and Poet. Communist. Central figure in the Harlem Renaissance.
    • 1919: 'If We Must Die' -> a response to the mob attacks by white upon african-american communitties during the Red Summer.
• Hubert Harrinson
  • father of harlem radicalism
  • founded the Liberty League. and the newspaper The Voice. -- The New Negro Movement.
• Fenton Johnson
  • one of the first negro revolutionary poets
• Alain Locke
  • Anthology 'The New Negro' [FUNDAMENTAL BOOK]
  • The most influencial philosopher of the movement, along with DuBois
• Langston Hughes
  • black writer, leader of the harlem renaissance
  • jazz poetry (maybe Moten's book may help to trace the political importance of this aesthetic form to black politics?)
  • publisher on The Crises magazine (official magazine of the NAACP)

ideas

• The New Negro ideal -> the central notion of dispute to be constructed by the movement

bibliography

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