Alain Locke's The New Negro (1925) and its Cultural Reception (1925–1935)

1. Locke plans the Survey Graphic “Harlem” issue

   Nov 1, 1924Labels: Alain Locke, Survey Graphic

   • Met Museum

2. Survey Graphic publishes “Harlem: Mecca” number

   Mar 1, 1925Labels: Survey Graphic, Harlem Issue

   • Met Museum
   • Survey Graphic

3. Locke expands the project into a book

   Jun 1, 1925Labels: Alain Locke, Anthology

   • Wikisource
   • Survey Graphic

4. The New Negro is published in New York

   Dec 1, 1925Labels: The New, Albert and

   • Wikisource
   • NYPL Digital

5. Readers debate art, politics, and representation

   Jan 1, 1926Labels: Reception Debate

   • Harvard Locke
   • New Yorker

6. Hughes publishes “The Negro Artist” manifesto

   Jun 23, 1926Labels: Langston Hughes, Manifesto

   • Yale Library
   • Gilder Lehrman

7. Van Vechten’s Harlem novel sparks controversy

   Oct 1, 1926Labels: Carl Van, Nigger Heaven

   • Nigger Heaven

8. Fire!! challenges “respectable” Harlem Renaissance tastes

   Nov 1, 1926Labels: Fire Magazine, Younger Writers

   • Britannica
   • Fire

9. Locke extends “New Negro” criticism into theater

   Jan 1, 1927Labels: Plays of, Montgomery Gregory

   • GMU Libraries

10. Second printing signals the anthology’s staying power

    Mar 1, 1927Labels: The New, Second Printing

    • Wikisource

11. Home to Harlem renews disputes over realism

    Jan 1, 1928Labels: Claude McKay, Home to

    • Britannica
    • Encyclopedia com

12. Cunard’s Negro Anthology reframes the legacy

    Jan 1, 1934Labels: Nancy Cunard, Negro Anthology

    • Gilder Lehrman