HIST-1410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Alain Leroy Locke, New Negro, African-American Culture
4 Feb 2020
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The harlem renaissance: **capacious (freer cultural atmosphere and capacious lifestyle explorations even draw whites to. Alain locke homosexual; quietly encouraged artists who were) Liberally educated african american: graduated from harvard; studied at oxford and university of berlin (embodied the ideas of the. Looking at the black migration, locke noted that a transformation/shift had occurred in the perspective and outlook of african americans : the birth of the new negro and the demise of the old negro . American their greatest experience has been the finding of one another. intellectual coming of age of the new negro. Components/themes of the new negro: new negro more militant and less acquiescent than old negro, negotiating the american identity; effort to define negro identity and ow it relates to being. American: growing reverence and connection to/with african past and inheritance no longer being ashamed of african origin. I, too : exemplifies the theme of negotiating the american identity, i, too, sing american.
