The New Negro: An Interpretation

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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] "The Negro Renaissance" included 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.

Howard University university in Washington D.C.

Howard University is a private, federally chartered historically black university (HBCU) in Washington, D.C. It is categorized by the Carnegie Foundation as a research university with higher research activity and is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.

The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual, social, and artistic explosion centered in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s. At the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement", named after The New Negro, a 1925 anthology edited by Alain Locke. The movement also included the new African-American cultural expressions across the urban areas in the Northeast and Midwest United States affected by the Great Migration, of which Harlem was the largest.

Countee Cullen American writer

Countee Cullen was an American poet, novelist, children's writer, and playwright, particularly well known during the Harlem Renaissance.

Contents

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 replaced 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 the white, middle class counterparts. However, some writers, such as Langston Hughes, sought to give voice to the lower, working class. [3]

Structure

Part 1: The Negro Renaissance

Part 1 contains Alain Locke's title essay "the New Negro" as well as the fiction and poetry sections. One of the poems, “White Houses” within the anthology represents, the African Americans struggle to confront and challenge the White House and white America, in order to fight for their civil rights. It shows a figure being shut out and left on the street to fend for himself. This is a figure who is not allowed the glory of the inside world, which represents the American ideals of freedom and opportunity. [4]

Part 2: The New Negro in a New World

"The New Negro in a New World" includes social and political analysis by writers including W. E. B. Du Bois, historian E. Franklin Frazier, Melville J. Herskovits, James Weldon Johnson, Paul U. Kellogg, Elise Johnson McDougald, Kelly Miller, Robert R. Moton, and activist Walter Francis White. [5]

W. E. B. Du Bois American sociologist, historian, activist and writer

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community, and after completing graduate work at the University of Berlin and Harvard, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate, he became a professor of history, sociology and economics at Atlanta University. Du Bois was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909.

E. Franklin Frazier American sociologist

Edward Franklin Frazier, was an American sociologist and author, publishing as E. Franklin Frazier. His 1932 Ph.D. dissertation was published as a book titled The Negro Family in the United States (1939); it analyzed the historical forces that influenced the development of the African-American family from the time of slavery to the mid-1930s. The book was awarded the 1940 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for the most significant work in the field of race relations. It was among the first sociological works on blacks researched and written by a black person.

Melville Jean Herskovits was an American anthropologist who helped establish African and African-American studies in American academia. He is known for exploring the cultural continuity from African cultures as expressed in African-American communities. He worked with his wife Frances (Shapiro) Herskovits, also an anthropologist, in the field in South America, the Caribbean and Africa. They jointly wrote several books and monographs together.

The book contains several portraits by Winold Reiss and illustrations by Aaron Douglas. It was published by Albert and Charles Boni, New York, in 1925. [6]

Winold Reiss American artist

F. Winold Reiss was a German-born American artist and graphic designer. He was born in Karlsruhe, Germany, the second son of Fritz Reiss (1857–1914) and his wife. He grew up surrounded by art, as his father was a well-known landscape artist and his brother became a sculptor.

Aaron Douglas American painter

Aaron Douglas was an American painter, illustrator and visual arts educator. He was a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance. He developed his art career painting murals and creating illustrations that addressed social issues around race and segregation in the United States by utilizing African-centric imagery. Douglas set the stage for young, African-American artists to enter public arts realm through his involvement with the Harlem Artists Guild. In 1944, he concluded his art career by founding the Art Department at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. He taught visual art classes at Fisk until his retirement in 1966. Douglas is known as a prominent leader in modern African-American art whose work influenced artists for years to come.

New York City Largest city in the United States

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Themes

The "Old" vs The "New" Negro

Alain Locke commonly draws on the theme of the "Old" vs. the "New Negro". The Old Negro according to Locke was a “creature of moral debate and historical controversy”. [7] 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. The Old Negro was something to be pushed and moved around and told what to do and worried about [8] . The Old Negro was a product of stereotypes and judgments that were put on them not ones that they created. They were forced to live in a shadow of themselves and others actions. [9]

The New Negro according to Locke is a Negro that now has an understanding of oneself. They at one point lacked self respect and self dependence which has created a new dynamic and allowed the birth of the New Negro. The Negro spirituals revealed themselves; suppressed for generations under the stereotypes of Wesleyan hymn harmony, secretive, half-ashamed, until the courage of being natural brought them out ⎯ and behold, there was folk-music. [10] They have become the Negro of today which is also the changed Negro. Locke speaks about the migration having an effect on the Negro leveling the playing field and increasing the realm of how the Negro is viewed because they were moved out of the south and into other areas where they could start over. The migration in a sense transformed the Negro and fused them together as they all came from all over the world, all walks of life, and all different backgrounds.

Self-expression

One of the themes in Locke's anthology is self-expression. Locke states that “It was rather the necessity for fuller, truer self-expression, the realization of the unwisdom of allowing social discrimination to segregate him mentally, and a counter-attitude to cramp and fetter his own living—and so the 'spite-wall'... has happily been taken down. [11] . He explains how it is important to realize that social discrimination can mentally affect you and bring you down. In order to break through that social discrimination, self-expression is needed to show who you truly are, and what you believe in. For Locke, this idea of self-expression is embedded in the poetry, art, and education of the Negro community. [12] Locke includes essays and poems in his anthology that emphasize the theme of self-expression. For example, the poem “Tableau,” by Countée Cullen, is about a white boy and a black boy who walk with locked arms while others judge them. [13] It represents that despite the history of racial discrimination from the whites to the blacks, they show what they believe is right in their self-expression, no matter how other people judge them. Their self-expression allows them not to let the judgement make them conform to societal norms with the separation of blacks and whites. Cullen's poem, “Heritage,” also shows how one finds self-expression in facing the weight of their own history as African Americans brought from Africa to America as slaves. Langston Hughes’ poem, “Youth,” puts forth the message that Negro youth have a bright future, and that they should rise together in their self-expression and seek freedom. [14]

Jazz and Blues

The publication of Locke's anthology coincides with the rise of the Jazz Age, the Roaring Twenties, and the Lost Generation. [15] Locke's anthology acknowledges how the Jazz age heavily impacts the individually and collectively within the African-American community as well as on America's robust cultural industries, music, film, theater—all of which fully benefited from the creativity and newly discovered contributions of African Americans. Locke in the anthology The New Negro explains how African American used music such as Jazz and Blues to escape poverty. It was Alain Locke who said that the Jazz age was, “a spiritual coming of age” [16] for African American artists and thinkers, who seized upon their “first chances for group expression and self-determination.” Harlem Renaissance poets and artists such as Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and Georgia Douglas Johnson explored the beauty and pain of black life through jazz and blues and sought to define themselves and their community outside of white stereotypes. [17]

Some of the most prominent African American artist that were greatly influenced by the “New Negro” concept that reflected in their music and concert works were William Grant Still and Duke Ellington. Duke Ellington, a renowned jazz artist, began to reflect the "New Negro" in his music, particularly in the jazz suite Black, Brown, and Beige. [18] The Harlem Renaissance prompted a renewed interest in black culture that was even reflected in the work of white artists, the most well known example being George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. [19]

Renewal and Rebirth

Alain Locke's, The New Negro, includes different forms of literature. Many center around the idea of a “rebirth and renewal” of black Americans that would help in their efforts to overcome oppression. In his essay, Locke gives the reader an image to illustrate the idea. He writes, “By shedding the old chrysalis of the Negro problem we are achieving something like a spiritual emancipation”. [20] He continues to explain by encouraging a change in the oppressed mindset that promotes transforming our problems into constructivism. In this act, the oppressed undergoes a sort of metamorphosis, abandoning the psychological and social limitations of the past to strive for social and economic freedom. [20] This sense of metamorphosis is apparent in a poem included in the anthology called “Baptism” by Claude McKay. [21] It can be read as a narrative of a spiritual renewal in which someone enters a furnace naked, weak, and afraid but returns strong and dignified.[ citation needed ] This spirit of renewed dignity and strength is captured in many of the writings included in The New Negro [22] .

Reception

The release of The New Negro and the writing and philosophy laid out by Alain Locke were met with wide support. However, not everyone agreed with the New Negro movement and its ideas. Some criticized the author selections, specifically Eric W. Reader, who wrote the collection of short stories “Tropic Death" (1926). He found Locke's selected “contemporary black leaders inadequate or ineffective in dealing with the cultural and political aspirations of black masses". [23] Others, like the African American academic Harold Cruse, even found the term New Negro “politically naive or overly optimistic”. Even some modern late 20th century authors like Gilbert Osofsky were concerned that the ideas of the New Negro would go on to stereotype and glamorize black life. [24] Still, Locke would go on to continue defending the idea of the New Negro.[ citation needed ] [25]

Legacy

After Locke published The New Negro, the anthology seemed to have served its purpose in trying to demonstrate that African Americans were advancing intellectually, culturally, and socially. This was important at a time like the early 19th century where African Americans were still being looked down upon by most whites. They did not get the same respect as whites did, and that was changing. The publication of The New Negro was able to help many of the authors featured in the anthology get their names and work more widely known. The publication became a rallying cry to other African Americans to try and join the up-and-coming New Negro movement at the time. The New Negro was also instrumental in making strides toward dispelling negative stereotypes associated with African Americans.

Locke’s legacy sparks a reoccurring interest in examining African culture and art. Not only was Locke's philosophy important during the Harlem Renaissance period, but continuing today, researchers and academia continue to analyze Locke's work. Locke’s anthology The New Negro: An Interpretation has endured years of reprinting spanning from 1925 until 2015. [26] Locke’s anthology has been reprinted in book form nearly thirty-five times since its original publication in 1925. [27]  Locke’s original anthology was published in 1925 by New York publisher Albert and Charles Boni. [28]   The most recent reprint was published by Mansfield Center CT: Martino Publishing, 2015. [29]

Beyond Locke’s work being reprinted, Locke’s influences extend to other authors and academics interested in Locke’s views and philosophy of African culture and art.  Author Anna Pochmara wrote The Making of the New Negro. [30] Journal articles by Leonard Harris, Alain Locke and Community and Identity: Alain Locke’s Atavism. [31] [32]   Essays by John C. Charles What was Africa to him? : Alain Locke in the book New Voices on the Harlem Renaissance. [33]  

Locke’s influence on the Harlem Renaissance encouraged artists and writers like Zora Neale Hurston to seek inspiration from Africa. [34]   Artists Aaron Douglas, William H. Johnson, Archibald Motley, and Horace Pippin created artwork representing the “New Negro Movement” influenced by Locke’s anthology. [35]

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