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  • Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. "Hearing the Hurt"; 2. "Of Beauty and Death": W.E.B. Du Bois's Darkwater; 3. "The Last and Best Gift of Africa": Du Bois, Dewey, and a Black Public; 4. "Negro Youth Speaks": Alain Locke and The New Negro; 5. "A Lampblacked Anglo-Saxon": George Schuyler and Langston Hughes in the Nation; 6. "All Art Is Propaganda": The Politics of a New Negro Aesthetics; 7. "Paul's Committed Suicide": A Utopist Tragedy in Wallace Thurman's Infants of the Spring; 8. "You Mean You Don't Want Me, 'Rene?": Anxiety, Desire, and Madness in Nella Larsen's Passing.