A LONG WAY FROM HOME
BY CLAUDE McKAY
LEE FURMAN · INC · NEW YORK
COPYRIGHT, 1937,
BY LEE FURMAN, INC.
Permission to reprint poems from "Harlem Shadows" was kindly granted by Harcourt, Brace and Co.
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
To my friends everywhere
CONTENTS
| [PART ONE] | ||
| AMERICAN BEGINNING | ||
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| [I] | A GREAT EDITOR | [3] |
| [II] | OTHER EDITORS | [26] |
| [III] | WHITE FRIENDS | [35] |
| [IV] | ANOTHER WHITE FRIEND | [45] |
| [PART TWO] | ||
| ENGLISH INNING | ||
| [V] | ADVENTURING IN SEARCH OF GEORGE BERNARDSHAW | [59] |
| [VI] | PUGILIST VS. POET | [66] |
| [VII] | A JOB IN LONDON | [73] |
| [VIII] | REGARDING REACTIONARY CRITICISM | [86] |
| [PART THREE] | ||
| NEW YORK HORIZON | ||
| [IX] | BACK IN HARLEM | [95] |
| [X] | A BROWN DOVE COOING | [116] |
| [XI] | A LOOK AT H.G. WELLS | [121] |
| [XII] | "HE WHO GETS SLAPPED" | [130] |
| [XIII] | "HARLEM SHADOWS" | [147] |
| [PART FOUR] | ||
| THE MAGIC PILGRIMAGE | ||
| [XIV] | THE DOMINANT URGE | [153] |
| [XV] | AN INDIVIDUAL TRIUMPH | [167] |
| [XVI] | THE PRIDE AND POMP OF PROLETARIAN POWER | [172] |
| [XVII] | LITERARY INTEREST | [185] |
| [XVIII] | SOCIAL INTEREST | [191] |
| [XIX] | A GREAT CELEBRATION | [206] |
| [XX] | REGARDING RADICAL CRITICISM | [226] |
| [PART FIVE] | ||
| THE CYNICAL CONTINENT | ||
| [XXI] | BERLIN AND PARIS | [237] |
| [XXII] | FRIENDS IN FRANCE | [253] |
| [XXIII] | FRANK HARRIS IN FRANCE | [265] |
| [XXIV] | CINEMA STUDIO | [272] |
| [XXV] | MARSEILLES MOTLEY | [277] |
| [PART SIX] | ||
| THE IDYLLS OF AFRICA | ||
| [XXVI] | WHEN A NEGRO GOES NATIVE | [295] |
| [XXVII] | THE NEW NEGRO IN PARIS | [306] |
| [XXVIII] | HAIL AND FAREWELL TO MOROCCO | [324] |
| [XXIX] | ON BELONGING TO A MINORITY GROUP | [342] |