THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
ART AND CULTURE OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
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The Old Negro is bad while the New Negro is good.
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The Old Negro was oppressed while the New Negro is achieving spiritual emancipation.
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The Old Negro speaks of rivers while the New Negro speaks of sunsets.
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The Old Negro seems suddenly to have slipped from under the tyranny of social intimidation and to be shaking off the psychology of imitation and implied inferiority.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Old Negro according to Locke was a “creature of moral debate and historical controversy”. The Old 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.
Detailed explanation-2: -There was a movement from the old Negro-that is, the plantation slave-to the new Negro, African-Americans who were considered more refined, educated, sophisticated, and involved in the political process.
Detailed explanation-3: -These forces converged to help create the “New Negro Movement” of the 1920s, which promoted a renewed sense of racial pride, cultural self-expression, economic independence, and progressive politics. Evoking the “New Negro, ” the NAACP lobbied aggressively for the passage of a federal law that would prohibit lynching.
Detailed explanation-4: -At the turn of the nineteenth century the term “New Negro” suggested education, refinement, money, assertiveness, and racial consciousness.