American Literature / Unit 13 AML 1203 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Alain Locke and *The New Negro*
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The idea
The witness credits Alain Locke's anthology The New Negro with gathering the movement and giving it a name and a programme. The figure it announced was self-assured, urban, modern and done apologizing, and the book put poets, fiction writers and essayists between the same covers.
In practice
An anthology that named a generation.
Where people slip
The New Negro is a claim, not a description.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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