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    Alain Locke, in "The New Negro," suggests that the "old Negro" is really nothing more than a myth or an ideal. He talks about the fact that there are aspects of Negro culture - such as the spiritual - that were beaten down but were accepted when finally allowed to emerge. Locke then takes a look at some trends, including the tendency toward moving "city-ward," and says these are not because of poor or even violent conditions in the south nor of the industry in the north. Instead, he attributes this

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    that I am potentially interested in working with, which are high school students. The first person I interviewed was a ninth-grade counselor at Alain Leroy Locke College Prepartory Academy. The second person I interviewed was a College Adviser, placed through USC, at Diego Rivera Learning Complex. While the first interview was conducted on site at Locke, the second interview was conducted on campus at USC. For both interviews, I came equipped with my questions already printed out and ready for me

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    that I am potentially interested in working with, which are high school students. The first person I interviewed was a ninth-grade counselor at Alain Leroy Locke College Prepartory Academy. The second person I interviewed was a College Adviser, placed through USC, at Diego Rivera Learning Complex. While the first interview was conducted on site at Locke, the second interview was conducted on campus at USC. For both interviews, I came equipped with my questions already printed out and ready for me

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    most famous writers during the Renaissance period was Alain Leroy Locke. He was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Locke was a philosopher who graduated from Harvard University. He is most known for his piece called “The New Negro,” and it expanded into anthology. This became known as the New Negro Movement. In Alain’s writings, he focused on African American’s finding out who they really were (“Alain Leroy Locke”).

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    Alain Locke was born on September 13, 1885, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Alain Locke was the son of Pliny Ishmael Locke and Mary Hawkins Locke. Locke was a philosopher, educator, and writer. He was a writer during the Harlem Renaissance. Alain Locke was very educated. He received his first bachelors degree from Philadelphia School of Pedagogy, and his second bachelors from Harvard University, which he graduated magna cum laude. Upon graduating Harvard, he was the first African American to receive

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    Atlantic in 1928 , and the list continues. Undoubtedly one of the most influential of events during this time was the Harlem Renaissance. Even with its many leaders and innovators, it wouldn’t have been nearly as effective had it not been for Alain LeRoy Locke: black writer, philosopher, and teacher who influenced black artists to look to African sources for pride and inspiration. Without Locke’s contribution, the Renaissance would not have flourished as much as it did, and black pride would have taken

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    self-sufficiency in literature and philosophy as Alain Locke had described as the elite New Negro image, queer blacks paved a new identity for African American culture as a carefree lifestyle of jazz, cabarets, and parties that perpetuate to today’s portrayal of black arts and literature. Carter, Jacoby Adeshei. "Alain LeRoy Locke." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. March 23, 2012. Accessed June 06, 2018. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/alain-locke/. Chen, Emma. "Black Face, Queer Space: The Influence

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    Analysis of the New Negro Essay

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    In the beginning Alain Locke tells us about the “tide of negro migration.” During this time in a movement known as the Great Migration, thousands of African-Americans also known as Negros left their homes in the South and moved North toward the beach line of big cities in search of employment and a new beginning. As Locke stated, “the wash and rush of this human tide on the beach line of Northern city centers is to be explained primarily in terms of a new vision of opportunity, of social and economic

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    Also known as The New Negro Movement, the Harlem Renaissance was an abstract and scholarly blooming that encouraged African American social character in the 1920s and 1930s. The movement was mainly caused by racial tensions in the southern United States after World War I. Many of the African-Americans who had served in World War I were angered by the prejudice that they confronted when they came back. Furthermore, the African Americans working in farms had very low pay. Even though they did backbreaking

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    1. Introduction. W.E.B. Dubois and Alain Locke were important contributors to the epoch called "Harlem Renaissance". With their writings atrists wanted to do something against racism, they wanted to show that the African - Americans don't have to feel inferior. Writing in the April, 1915, issue of Crisis, DuBois said: "In art and literature we should try to loose the tremendous emotional wealth of the Negro and the dramatic strength of his problems through writing ... and other forms of art. We

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