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Surveys of Black Literature from the 1930s and 1940s The Negro Genius: A New Appraisal of the Achievement of the American Negro in Literature and the Fine Arts (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1937), Benjamin Brawley * The Negro in American Fiction (New York: Atheneum, 1969), Sterling Brown * Negro Poetry and Drama (New York: Atheneum, 1969), Sterling Brown Phylon's Retrospective on the Harlem Renaissance, December 1950 "Some Practical Observations: A Colloquy," Langston Hughes and the Editors of Phylon. * "Criticism at Mid-Century," Ulysses Lee * "Negro Poets, Then and Now," Arna Bontemps * "The Van Vechten Revolution: Phylon Profile, XXII," George S. Schuyler * "The Negro Writer-Shadow and Substance," J. Saunders Redding * "Self-Criticism: The Third Dimension in Culture," Alain Locke * "The Negro Writer: Pitfalls and Compensations," William Gardner Smith * "New Poets," Margaret Walker The New Negro Thirty Years Afterward, edited by Rayford W. Logan, et al. (Washington: Howard University, Press, 1955) "The Historical Setting of The New Negro ," Rayford W. Logan * "The New Negro Middle Class," E. Franklin Frazier * "The New Negro in Literature (1925-1955)," Sterling A. Brown * "The New Negro and the New Deal," John Hope Franklin * "The Negro Renaissance and Its Significance," Charles S. Johnson The Harlem Renaissance Remembered, edited by Arna Bontemps (New York, Dodd Mead and Company, 1972) "The Awakening: A Memoir," Arna Bontemps * "Under the Harlem Shadow: A Study of Jessie Fauset and Nella Larsen," Hiroko Sato * "Portrait of Wallace Thurman," Mae Gwendolyn Henderson * "Zora Neale Hurston and the Eatonville Anthropology," Robert Hemenway * "Charles S. Johnson: Entrepreneur of the Harlem Renaissance," Patrick J. Gilpin * "Frank Horne and the Second Echelon Poets of the Harlem Renaissance," Ronald Primeau Essays "Harlem Literati in the Twenties." Saturday Review of Literature (1940), Langston Hughes * "My Early Days in Harlem." April 7, 1963. Typed manuscript with extensive pencil corrections, Langston Hughes * "The Negro Author: His Publisher, His Public and His Purse." Publishers Weekly 147 (1945), J. Saunders Redding * "Alain Locke's Relationship to the Negro in American Literature." Phylon (1957), William Stanley Braithwaite * "The Literature of the Negro in the United States." In Addison Gayle, Jr., ed., Black Expression (New York: Weybright & Talley, 1969), Richard Wright * "The Negro Author and His Publisher." The Negro Quarterly 1 (1942), Sterling A. Brown