I. The new negro. The new Negro / W.E.C. Wright --
An appeal to the king / J.W.E. Bowen --
Afro-American education / Booker T. Washington --
Heroes and martyrs / N.B. Wood --
The club movement among colored women of America ; The intellectual progress of the colored women of the United States since the Emancipation Proclamation / Fannie Barrier Williams --
Rough sketches : a study of the features of the new Negro woman ; Rough sketches : the new negro man / John Henry Adams, Jr. --
An ostracised race in ferment : the conflict of Negro parties and Negro leaders over methods of dealing with their own problem / Ray Stannard Baker --
The new Negro / William Pickens --
Returning soldiers / W.E.B. Du Bois --
The new Negro and the U.N.I.A. / Marcus Garvey --
As to 'The new Negro' / Anonymous --
The new Negro / Geroid Robinson --
The new politics ; Education and the race / Hubert H. Harrison --
The new Negro ; Sterling Brown : the new Negro folk-poet / Alain Locke --
The new Negro Hokum / Gustavus Adolphus Stewart --
Who is the new Negro, and why? / J.A. Rogers --
The new Negro as revealed in his poetry ; La Bourgeoisie Noire E. Franklin Frazier / Charlotte E. Taussig --
The new Negro in Paris / Claude McKay --
The rise of the Black internationale / George S. Schuyler --
II. How should art portray the Negro? One phase of American literature / Anna Julia Cooper --
[Negro in literature] / Paul Laurence Dunbar --
The Negro in books / Charles W. Chesnutt --
The Negro in literature / William Stanley Braithwaite --
The Negro in art : how shall he be portrayed / The Crisis Symposium --
Some aspects of the Negro interpreted in contemporary American and European literature / John Frederick Matheus --
The Negro in recent American literature / Eugene Clay --
III. The renaissance. The younger literary movement / W.E.B. Du Bois --
Negro youth speaks / Alain Locke --
Uncle Tom's mansion / Carl van Vechten --
The Aframerican : new style / H.L. Mencken --
The Negro renaissance / Carl van Doren --
The Negro renaissance / Walter White --
The Negro literary renaissance / Benjamin Brawley --
The Negro 'renaissance' / Lloyd Morris --
The Negro Renaissance / Martha Gruening --
Our Negro 'intellectuals' / Allison Davis --
For a Negro magazine / Claude McKay --
IV. Art or propaganda? Art and propaganda / Eric Walrond --
Propaganda in the theatre / Willis Richardson --
Criteria of Negro art / W.E.B. du Bois --
Art or propaganda? / Alain Locke --
Propaganda--or poetry? --
Blueprint for Negro writing / Richard Wright --
V. Literature : history and theory. Afro-American women and their work / Katherine Tillman --
The value of race literature / Victoria Earle Matthews --
The writing of a novel / Charles W. Chesnutt --
The Negro in literature and art / W.E.B. du Bois --
Negro literature for Negro pupils / Alice Dunbar-Nelson --
Negro race consciousness as reflected in race literature / Robert E. Park --
Colored authors and their contributions to the world's literature / Irene M. Gaines --
A point of view (an opportunity dinner reaction) / Brenda Ray Moryck --
The Negro digs up his past / Arthur A. Schomburg --
A note on the sociology of Negro literature / Fred Dearmond --
Negro art, past and present / Albert C. Barnes --
Survey of Negro literature, 1760-1926 / Thomas L.G. Oxley --
Race prejudice and the Negro artist / James Weldon Johnson --
Negro literature / Walter White --
Characteristics of Negro expression / Zora Neale Hurston --
The Negro genius / Benjamin Brawley --
VI. Literature : the literary profession and the marketplace. On a certain condescension in white publishers / Hubert H. Harrison --
The Negro audience / Willis Richardson --
Negro authors must eat / George W. Jacobs (George S. Schuyler) --
The dilemma of the Negro author ; Negro authors and white publishers / James Weldon Johnson --
Our literary audience / Sterling A. Brown --
A Negro writer to his critics / Claude McKay --
Problems facing the Negro writer today / Eugene C. Holmes --
VII. Literature : poetry. Some contemporary poets of the Negro race / William Stanley Braithwaite --
Dunbar's poetry in literary English / Charles Eaton Burch --
The Negro in poetry / John Edward Bruce --
Old school of Negro 'critics' hard on Paul Laurence Dunbar / Thomas Millard Henry --
Negro poets and their poetry / Wallace Thurman --
The Negro poets of the United States / Alain Locke --
Mr. Garvey as a poet / T. Thomas Fortune --
Preface (from The book of American Negro poetry) / James Weldon Johnson --
VIII. Music : spirituals. Negro music / Paul Laurence Dunbar --
The sorrow songs / W.E.B. du Bois --
Negro folk song / John W. Work --
The Negro spirituals / Alain Locke --
The Negro spirituals and American art / Laurence Buermeyer --
Self-portraiture and social criticism in Negro folk-song / B.A. Botkin --
Spirituals and neo-spirituals / Zora Neale Hurston --
IX. Music : jazz. Whence comes jass? / Walter Kingsley --
That mysterious 'jazz' / Grenville Vernon --
Jazzing away prejudice ; Where The etude stands on jazz / Anonymous --
Jazz at home / J.A. Rogers --
From the appeal of jazz / R.W.S. Mendl --
Hot jazz / Robert Goffin --
From Swing that music / Louis Armstrong --
X. Theater. The Negro in drama / Rollin Lynde Hartt --
Reflections on O'Neill's plays / Paul Robeson --
The drama of Negro life / Montgomery Gregory --
The gift of laughter / Jessie Fauset --
Same old blues / Theophilus Lewis --
The drama of Negro life / Alain Locke --
The Negro in the field of drama / Rowena Woodham Jelliffe --
Has the Negro a place in the theatre? / Jules Bledsoe --
A criticism of the Negro drama as it relates to the Negro dramatist and artist / Eulalie Spence --
From Black Manhattan / James Weldon Johnson --
XI. The fine arts. A note on African art ; The American Negro as artist ; African art : classic style / Alain Locke --
Henry Ossawa Tanner / Jessie Fauset --
African plastic in contemporary art / Harry Alan Potamkin --
The Negro artist and modern art / Romare Bearden.