For the biography of Alain LeRoy Locke by Jeffrey C. Stewart, see The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke.
The New Negro
Editor
Alain Locke
Publisher
Atheneum
Publication date
1925
OCLC
640055594
The New Negro: An Interpretation (1925) is an anthology of fiction, poetry, and essays on African and African-American art and literature edited by Alain Locke, who lived in Washington, DC, and taught at Howard University during the Harlem Renaissance.[1] As a collection of the creative efforts coming out of the burgeoning New Negro Movement or Harlem Renaissance, the book is considered by literary scholars and critics to be the definitive text of the movement.[2] Part 1 of The New Negro: An Interpretation, titled "The Negro Renaissance", includes Locke's title essay "The New Negro", as well as nonfiction essays, poetry, and fiction by writers including Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, and Eric Walrond.
The New Negro: An Interpretation dives into how the African Americans sought social, political, and artistic change. Instead of accepting their position in society, Locke saw the New Negro as championing and demanding civil rights. In addition, his anthology sought to change old stereotypes and replace them with new visions of black identity that resisted simplification. The essays and poems in the anthology mirror real life events and experiences.[3]
The anthology reflects the voice of middle-class African-American citizens that wanted to have equal civil rights like their white, middle-class counterparts. However, some writers, such as Langston Hughes, sought to give voice to the lower, working class.[3]
^"Alain LeRoy Locke". Biography. Retrieved May 18, 2019.
^Arnold Rampersad, introduction to The New Negro: Voices of the Harlem Renaissance, 1992
^ ab"Issues and Debates in African American Literature". University of Delaware; library. 2018. Retrieved May 24, 2018.
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