Friday, January 3, 2025: 8:00 PM-9:30 PM
Metropolitan Ballroom East (Small) (Sheraton New York, Second Floor)
Chair:
Jelani Cobb, Columbia Journalism School
Speakers:
A'Lelia P. Bundles, Madam Walker Family Archives
Gene Andrew Jarrett, Princeton University
David Levering Lewis, New York University
Denise Murrell, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Jeffrey Stewart, University of California, Santa Barbara
Gene Andrew Jarrett, Princeton University
David Levering Lewis, New York University
Denise Murrell, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Jeffrey Stewart, University of California, Santa Barbara
Session Abstract
This session commemorates the New Negro, an anthology of essays edited by Alain Locke and published in 1925. In March of that year, Survey Graphic, a monthly unillustrated magazine of the social work journal, Survey, published "Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro," a special issue dedicated to “The New Negro.” Also edited by Locke, it featured essays by such important writers as W. A. Domingo, W.E.B. Du Bois, Countee Cullen, Elise Johnson McDougald, Arthur Schomburg, Walter White, J.A. Rogers, and Eunice Roberta Hunton Carter. Later that year the enormously influential anthology, the New Negro, appeared. Building on the special issue in Survey Graphic and with new essays by like Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Toomer and others, the New Negro came to be seen as the manifesto of the Harlem Renaissance.
On the 100th anniversary of The New Negro, our conversation will situate the New Negro in the context of the time in which it was published and the century that followed. Panelists and audience will engage the ideas about Black freedom that Locke and the other contributors to the volume envisioned and how over time, Black people have continued, in the words of Locke's recent biographer Jeffrey Stewart, to find ways to “ reinvent” themselves “even in the worst of times."
On the 100th anniversary of The New Negro, our conversation will situate the New Negro in the context of the time in which it was published and the century that followed. Panelists and audience will engage the ideas about Black freedom that Locke and the other contributors to the volume envisioned and how over time, Black people have continued, in the words of Locke's recent biographer Jeffrey Stewart, to find ways to “ reinvent” themselves “even in the worst of times."
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