The New Negro (anthology)

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The New Negro is a landmark 1925 anthology edited by Alain Locke that helped define and propel the Harlem Renaissance by showcasing the literature, art, and thought of a new generation of Black American creators.

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instanceOf book
literary anthology
aim to define the concept of the "New Negro"
to showcase a new generation of Black American creators
containsWorkBy Claude McKay
Countee Cullen
Georgia Douglas Johnson
James Weldon Johnson
Jean Toomer
Jessie Fauset
Langston Hughes
Rudolph Fisher
W. E. B. Du Bois
Wallace Thurman
Zora Neale Hurston
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
describedAs landmark anthology of the Harlem Renaissance
editor Alain Locke
editorialPhilosophy cultural pluralism
genre African-American literature
essay collection
poetry anthology
short story anthology
hasPart drama
essays
poems
short stories
visual art reproductions
historicalSignificance helped define the Harlem Renaissance
helped popularize the term "New Negro"
served as a manifesto for Black artistic and intellectual expression in the 1920s
influenced African-American cultural nationalism
African-American intellectual history
Harlem Renaissance literature
language English
movement Harlem Renaissance
notableWorkOf Alain Locke
publicationYear 1925
publisher Albert and Charles Boni
subject African-American culture
African-American identity
Black art and aesthetics
civil rights
race relations in the United States
theme art as a tool for social change
racial pride
self-determination
urban modernity
timePeriod Harlem Renaissance

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Harlem Renaissance notableWork The New Negro (anthology)