Alain Locke The New Negro Summary

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Alain Locke argues in his essay, “The New Negro,” about African Americans inner and outer objectives. During the heated days of the Harlem Renaissance, African Americans went through a new phase in which they were determined to discover their inner self and create an identity defined by them not by American prejudice; while still being part of the American culture. “The Negro today is inevitably moving forward under the control largely of his own objectives. What are those objectives? Those of his outer life are happily already well and finally formulated, for they are none other than the ideals of American Institutions and democracy. Those of his inner life are yet in process of formation…” (The New Negro, pp.10). This quote means that when