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    The New Negro Movement of 1920-1940 promoted racial pride, cultural expression, economic independence, and progressive politics in the African American community. It was inspired by the 1925 anthology The New Negro and coincided with the Harlem Renaissance, when Harlem became a cultural center and many prominent African American artists and intellectuals emerged. The Movement embraced ideals of intellectualism, creative expression through literature, poetry, music, and art, and addressed themes of duality, urban African American experience, and racial issues through modernist works.

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    The New Negro Movement of 1920-1940 promoted racial pride, cultural expression, economic independence, and progressive politics in the African American community. It was inspired by the 1925 anthology The New Negro and coincided with the Harlem Renaissance, when Harlem became a cultural center and many prominent African American artists and intellectuals emerged. The Movement embraced ideals of intellectualism, creative expression through literature, poetry, music, and art, and addressed themes of duality, urban African American experience, and racial issues through modernist works.

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    The New Negro Movement of 1920-1940 promoted racial pride, cultural expression, economic independence, and progressive politics in the African American community. It was inspired by the 1925 anthology The New Negro and coincided with the Harlem Renaissance, when Harlem became a cultural center and many prominent African American artists and intellectuals emerged. The Movement embraced ideals of intellectualism, creative expression through literature, poetry, music, and art, and addressed themes of duality, urban African American experience, and racial issues through modernist works.

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    The New Negro Movement

    1920 - 1940
    - 1920 - 1940
    - promoted a renewed sense of racial
    pride, cultural self-expression, economic
    independence, and progressive politics.

    - named after The New Negro, a 1925

    New Negro anthology edited by Alain Locke.

    - ”Harlem Renaissance”
    1870 1900 1910 1916
    Freed slaves move past Harlem becomes a final The NAACP is Madame Walker
    slavery destination founded moves to Harlem

    1917 1918 1919 1924


    Protests and riots Marcus Garvey The American Civic Club Dinner launches
    for equal rights begins publishing Negro The New Negro
    1925 1927 1927 1927
    The New Negro An African American Louis Armstrong Harlem Globetrotters
    <Movement wins the Pulitzer prize Plays jjazz

    1929 1929 1934 1937


    A successful Broadway The Great Depression The fight against The last novel of the
    Play by a black artist hits segregation Harlem Renaissance
    CHARACTERISTICS OF
    HARLEM RENAISSANCE CULTURE
    INTELLECTUALISM
    • A “spiritual
    emancipation” for the
    African-American
    community

    • The opportunity to
    reshape the African-
    American heritage as
    an intellectual one to
    whites
    CREATIVE EXPRESSION

    • One of the few


    avenues available to
    African-American

    • Not jjust in literature


    but also in music and
    art
    JJazz Band

    Creative
    Expression:::
    MUSIC
    Louis Armstrong
    TYPES OF
    LITERATURE
    JJAZZ
    POETRY
    • “demonstrates
    jazz-like rhythm or
    the feel of
    improvisation”
    • Poetry in which
    the poet responds
    to and writes
    about jazz
    Characteristics of Literature
    Cha
    THE JAZZ AGE DUALITY URBANITY

    MODERNISM THE “NEW NEGRO”

    THE GREAT MIGRATION PAN-AFRICANISM

    RACIAL DIVISION HIGH/LOW CULTURE

    SOCIALISM/COMMUNISM
    • civil rights activist, writer,
    composer, politician, educator
    and lawyer

    • founded a newspaper, The


    Daily American

    • The Autobiography of an Ex-


    Colored Man (1912)
    JJames Weldon
    • God's Trombones (1927)
    Johnson
    • a Jamaican writer and poet

    • Home to Harlem (1928)

    • Banjo (1929)

    • Banana Bottom (1933)

    Claude McKay
    • an American poet, novelist,
    children's writer, and
    playwright

    • Color (1925)

    • One Way to Heaven (1932)

    • My Lives and How I Lost Them


    (1942)
    Countee Cullen
    • an American poet, social
    activist, novelist, playwright,
    and columnist from Joplin,
    Missouri

    • I, Too (1926)

    • The Weary Blues (1926)

    • Let America Be America Again


    (1936)
    Langston Hughes
    • an American author,
    anthropologist, and filmmaker

    • Their Eyes Were Watching


    God (1937)

    • Mule Bone (1931)

    ZZora Neale Hurston


    Sample Excerpts of Work Let America Be America Again
    - By Langston Hughes
    Let America be America again. Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed
    Let it be the dream it used to be. Let it be that great strong land of love
    Let it be the pioneer of the plain Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
    Seeking a home where he himself is free. That any man be crushed by one above

    (America never was America to me.) (It never was America to me.)

    Cross
    - By Langston Hughes
    My old man’s white old man I’s sorry for that evil wish
    And my old mother’s black. And now I wish her well
    If ever I cursed my white old man My old man died in a fine big house
    I take my curses back. My ma died in a shack.
    If ever I cursed my black old mother I wonder were I’m going to die’
    And wished she were in hell, Being neither white nor black?
    THANKS FOR
    YOUR
    ATTENTION

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