Interpreting the "New Negro" Without Breaking a "Sweat"
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 ...