Adrian's Affluential Analysis about African American Anthology

  The term "New Negro" can have many different meanings to it, as exampled by Alain Locke's "The New Negro" or Chandler Owens and A. Philip Randolph's "The New Negro - What Is He?" If you weren't there for my presentation about the New Negro movement, here is a short summary of their idea of the "New Negro." Locke had a degree in philosophy and writing and so when he focused on what the "New Negro" meant to him, he believed that African Americans should be more confident and divert from the white people's ideology of the "Old Negro." The "Old Negro" was a term created by white people that described African Americans as dependent and subservient.  This meant making music such as blues or jazz that differ from white culture and it would later become their own. Owens and Randolph on the other hand were socialists who believed that the only way for African Americans to get away from the idea of the ...

The Vernacular Tradition is something that we witness throughout our first month of African American literature. In either stories or poems, the vernacular is what fuels these authors to keep writing, to build up something that expresses who they truly are. And that is what we're going to look into in this blog.      Let's start off by looking at the stories we've read in class so far. Jacob's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl features Linda Brent who describes her life story as a slave, going through many challenges and obstacles on her way of claiming her freedom. Throughout the text, Brent meets many characters, one particular character that stands out is Dr. Flint, a physician that goes through anything to get what he wants. Brent shows Dr. Flint's character through her personal experiences, giving the reader enough information to determine who Dr. Flint really is without explicitly saying it. There is also another point in the story that shows how male slav...