Alain Locke had a vision of the young, reincarnated, Negro having his own point of view and not being influenced by America. This New Negro would be intelligent and overcome all hardships of the past. Langston Hughes saw this imaginary Negro that Locke had described in both a good and bad light. He viewed the realistic aspects of this modern Negro. In Hughes' When The Negro Was In Vogue, he divulged both the ups and downs of this New Negro described by Locke. In the first paragraph of The New Negro, Locke states that, " He simply cannot be swathed in their formulae. For the younger generation is vibrant with a new psychology; the new spirit is awake in the masses, and under the very eyes of the professional observers is transforming what has been a perennial problem into the progressive phases of contemporary Negro life."" (Study Guide p.87) His narration of this new being portrays someone who he believes will rid African Americans of the problems that have been a constant in their lives. He believes that this New Negro can somehow use these hardships to aid in the progressive change of the Old Negro. Locke believed that the Old Negro, " had long become more of a myth than a man,"" and, " for generations in the mind of America, the Negro has been more of a formula than a human being "a something to be argued about, condemned or defended, to be "kept down-, or "in his place-, or helped up, to be worried with or worried over, harassed or patronized, a social bogey or a social burden-, and that is exactly the image that the New Negro was going to alter. (87) .
The New Negro was, " moving forward under the control largely of his own objectives."" His "inner objectives- were "an attempt to repair a damaged group psychology and reshape a warped social perspective."" (91) He would make sure that " the Negro today is known for what he is even in his faults and shortcomings, and scorns a craven and precarious survival at the price of seeming to be what he is not.
Locke, Alain LeRoy. ... Locke, Alain LeRoy. ... This book has been reprinted from The New Negro, Alain Locke (ed.), Boni, (1925) and is available for readers in Jackson State University Library in Alabama. ---. ... "Locke, Alain Leroy." ... Akam begins this assessment by commenting on The New Negro movement that nurtured such well-known figures guided by Alain Locke. ...
Locke, Alain LeRoy. ... Locke, Alain LeRoy. ... This book has been reprinted from The New Negro, Alain Locke (ed.), Boni, (1925) and is available for readers in Jackson State University Library in Alabama. ---. ... "Locke, Alain Leroy." ... Akam begins this assessment by commenting on The New Negro movement that nurtured such well-known figures guided by Alain Locke. ...
The idealistic image of the New Negro was developed by Alain Locke. ... To shed that image of the Old Negro, who was accepting, it was necessary to strive towards becoming the New Negro. ... As the New Negro as such had no biological bond or even authentical understanding of African art, saw Locke it as necessary that all influences, may they be African, American or European, were to be used to develop new art forms New Negros could identify with and which would bring them recognition among the international art scene. ... (Kirschke, 131) Both Locke and Douglas offer space to find contrad...
Between 1890 and 1910 the population of Negroes in New York tripled, causing black neighborhoods to overflow. ... "In one district in New York (Harlem) a Negro population equal in numbers to the inhabitants of Dallas, Texas, or Springfield, Massachusetts, lives, works, and pursues its ideals almost as a separate entity from the great surrounding metro- polis. ... He was considered the father of the Harlem Renaissance along with another man by the name of Alain Locke. Alain Locke was a professor at a prestigious black University, who sensed the gathering momentum of talented young...
Variously known as the New Negro movement, the New Negro Renaissance, and the Negro Renaissance; the movement emerged toward the end of World War I in 1918, blossomed in the mid- to late 1920s, and then faded in the mid-1930s with the beginning of the Great Depression. ... "In the history of New York, the significance of the name Harlem has changed from Dutch to Irish to Jewish to Negro (Johnson, 1925)."" The impact of the New Negro Movement was enormous. ... The Harlem issue featured work by black writers and artists, which was edited by black philosopher and literary scholar Alain Locke (...
Harlem Renaissance From 1920 until about 1930 an unprecedented outburst of creative activity among African Americans occurred in all literary discussions in the lower Manhattan and upper Manhattan sections of New York City, this African American cultural movement became known as "The Negro Movement" and later as the Harlem Renaissance. ... African Americans were encouraged to celebrate their heritage and to become "The New Negro," term coined in 1925 by sociologist and critic Alain LeRoy Locke. ... In his influential book The New Negro (1925), Locke described the northward migration of ...
As incidence of the plague decreased in the late fifteenth century, populations swelled, creating a new demand for goods and services. A new middle class began to emerge as bankers, merchants, and tradespeople once again had a market for their goods and services. ... This was important because as the economy of the Renaissance continued to improve, there were ever-increasing demands for imported goods and new places to export local products. ... Humanism Emerges Books also helped to spread awareness of a new philosophy that emerged when Renaissance scholars known as humanists returned to ...
Many came to a large black area of New York City, Harlem. ... This is where the beginnings of a new culture occurred. ... The New Negro Movement (later renamed the Harlem Renaissance) emerged toward the end of World War I in 1918, blossomed in the mid- to late 1920's, and then faded in the mid- 1930's. ... Du Bois, Jessie Fauset, Rudolph Fisher, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, Alain Locke, Claude McKay, Wallace Thurman, Jean Toomer, Carl Van Vechten, and Walter White. ... Du Bois, who also helped founded the NAACP, Alain Locke, and Langston Hughes. ...
This African American cultural movement became known as the "The New Negro Movement" and later was called the Harlem Renaissance. ... Critic and teacher Alain Locke described it as a "spiritual coming of age" in which the black community was able to seize upon its "first chances for group expression and self determination." ... Johnsons magazine Opportunity became the leading voice of black culture, while The Crisis, a monthly magazine of the NAACP depicted the New Negro with portrait shots of well-dressed blacks. The black philosopher Alian Locke published his most talked about essay "The New...
