Harlem Renaissance Weekly - Reading the New Negro?movement in 1920s?black Newspapers

Introducing readers to a fascinating trove of serial fiction published in 1920s Black newspapers, this book upends the prevailing view of the Renaissance as a strictly cultural phenomenon. Instead, Martha Patterson shows newspaper fiction's deep investment in sociopolitical debates over drinking, interracial marriage, and anti-lynching activism.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Dueling and dancing with demon rum: prohibition during the Harlem renaissance; Part I. Battling the Hydra of Profitable Hate in White Newspapers: Anti-lynching Second Serials in the Black Press: 2. From 'Superman' into cannibal: Joel Augustus Rogers and the '100% American' New Negro; 3. 'It is our land just the same': Joshua Henry Jones Jr. and the nativist New Negro's claim on the melting pot; 4. 'Saving the black man's body and the white man's soul': Walter White, the New Negro man's martyrdom, and the New Negro woman's rise; 5. Wayward husbands, jazzy jezebels, and lost children: the New Negro woman's anguish after the Great Migration; 6. The 'chocolate baby' versus the New Negro 'Roué': revisiting the Mann act in George Schuyler; Conclusion.

About the author

An English professor at McKendree University, Martha H. Patterson wrote Beyond the Gibson Girl: Reimagining the American New Woman, 1895 –1915 (Illinois, 2005) and edited The American New Woman Revisited: A Reader, 1894 –1930 (Rutgers, 2008), and served as co-editor with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. of The New Negro: A History in Documents, 1887 –1937 (Princeton, 2025).

Product details

• Authors: Martha H. Patterson, Martha H. (Mckendree University) Patterson
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 31.10.2025
• EAN: 9781009566681
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0956668-1
• No. of pages: 306
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Fiction; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; USA, Media Studies, Fiction, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Press & journalism, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literature: history & criticism, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Media studies: Journalism, Literature: history and criticism, Violence, intolerance and persecution in history, US Northeast