The New Negro (Masterplots II: African American Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Arthur Locke
- First Published: 1925
- Type of Work: Essays
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: African Americans, Segregation or integration, Culture, Tradition, Colonialism, Race, Twentieth century, Music or musicians, Literature, Education or educators, Art or artists, Poetry or poets, Harlem, Folklore, Jazz music, Folk art
Form and Content
Edited by Alain Locke, a Howard University professor of philosophy, The New Negro was a compilation of poems, short fiction, essays, and illustrations. It celebrated the appearance of a new contingent of African American writers and artists, following the Great Migration of rural Southern blacks to Northern urban meccas in the early twentieth century. An expression of the creative energy and ferment of the postwar Jazz Age, the volume was both a collection of literary and visual artifacts and, in its ideological function as a racial manifesto, a cultural...
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