14 Facts About The New Negro

The Old The New Negro according to Locke was a “creature of moral debate and historical controversy”.

The Old The New Negro was restricted by the inhumane conditions of slavery that he was forced to live in; historically traumatized due to events forced upon them and the social perspective of them as a whole.

The Old The New Negro was something to be pushed and moved around and told what to do and worried about.

The Old The New Negro was a product of stereotypes and judgments that were put on them, not ones that they created.

New Negro according to Locke is a Negro that now has an understanding of oneself.

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The The New Negro spirituals revealed themselves; suppressed for generations under the stereotypes of Wesleyan hymn harmony, secretive, half-ashamed, until the courage of being natural brought them out—and behold, there was folk music.

Locke speaks about the migration having an effect on the The New Negro, leveling the playing field and increasing the realm of how the The New Negro is viewed because they were moved out of the south and into other areas where they could start over.

The migration in a sense transformed the The New Negro and fused them together as they all came from all over the world, all walks of life, and all different backgrounds.

Langston Hughes' poem, “Youth, ” puts forth the message that The New Negro youth have a bright future, and that they should rise together in their self-expression and seek freedom.

Locke in the anthology The New Negro explains how African American used music such as Jazz and Blues to escape poverty.

The New Negro writes, “By shedding the old chrysalis of the Negro problem we are achieving something like a spiritual emancipation”.

The New Negro continues to explain by encouraging a change in the oppressed mindset that promotes transforming our problems into constructivism.

The publication of The New Negro was able to help many of the authors featured in the anthology get their names and work more widely known.

The New Negro was instrumental in making strides toward dispelling negative stereotypes associated with African Americans.