Att skriva en renässans: The New Negro och vägen till en ny svart nationalism 1917–1925
(2024) ILHK02 20232Division of History of Ideas and Sciences
- Abstract
- Writing a Renaissance: The New Negro and the path to a new Black nationalism 1917–1925
The New Negro: an Interpretation (1925), edited by the philosopher and critic Alain Locke, is regarded as a central text concerning the literary movement known as the Harlem Renaissance. Widely viewed as documenting the transition of Black American litterature into the age of modernism. The anthology sought to describe the great social and cultural changes that took place in the years after the First world war and how these changes impacted the world view of a new generation of Black American artists. These changes manifested as a new sense of pride tied to race, and a new sense of self with origins in the Black experience in America, rather than in... (More) - Writing a Renaissance: The New Negro and the path to a new Black nationalism 1917–1925
The New Negro: an Interpretation (1925), edited by the philosopher and critic Alain Locke, is regarded as a central text concerning the literary movement known as the Harlem Renaissance. Widely viewed as documenting the transition of Black American litterature into the age of modernism. The anthology sought to describe the great social and cultural changes that took place in the years after the First world war and how these changes impacted the world view of a new generation of Black American artists. These changes manifested as a new sense of pride tied to race, and a new sense of self with origins in the Black experience in America, rather than in regard to the concept of slavery. This new sense of agency define what Locke calls “the New Negros”, the new generation of emerging artists exploring this new sense of self and racial expression.
In this thesis I want to present a partially new interpretation about the origin of The New Nego. The traditional view of the anthology is that it is a product of the black political establishment. While I do not deny the deep connections, I want to argue that the book was the result of a planned public relations-campaign aimed at both changing the public view of Black Americans, and to negate the effects that Marcus Garvey’s separatist black nationalism had within Black America. This campaign had its origins in a group of people centered around the National Urban Leagues newspaper Opportunity and had connections to the Settlement movement and the National Conference of Social Work. (Less)
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- Forsman, Jimmy LU
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- course
- ILHK02 20232
- year
- 2024
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- American politics, Alain Locke, Charles S. Johnson, Harlem Renaissance, Jean Bourdieu, Marcus Garvey, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), National Urban League (NUL), National Conference of Social Work, New Negro, Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), W. E. B. Du Bois
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- Swedish
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- 9149846
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- 2024-08-19 12:57:53
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abstract = {{Writing a Renaissance: The New Negro and the path to a new Black nationalism 1917–1925
The New Negro: an Interpretation (1925), edited by the philosopher and critic Alain Locke, is regarded as a central text concerning the literary movement known as the Harlem Renaissance. Widely viewed as documenting the transition of Black American litterature into the age of modernism. The anthology sought to describe the great social and cultural changes that took place in the years after the First world war and how these changes impacted the world view of a new generation of Black American artists. These changes manifested as a new sense of pride tied to race, and a new sense of self with origins in the Black experience in America, rather than in regard to the concept of slavery. This new sense of agency define what Locke calls “the New Negros”, the new generation of emerging artists exploring this new sense of self and racial expression.
In this thesis I want to present a partially new interpretation about the origin of The New Nego. The traditional view of the anthology is that it is a product of the black political establishment. While I do not deny the deep connections, I want to argue that the book was the result of a planned public relations-campaign aimed at both changing the public view of Black Americans, and to negate the effects that Marcus Garvey’s separatist black nationalism had within Black America. This campaign had its origins in a group of people centered around the National Urban Leagues newspaper Opportunity and had connections to the Settlement movement and the National Conference of Social Work.}},
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