1. Finding the New Negro: Alain Locke and Aaron Douglas
That new type was to achieve both: raise race awareness for Blacks in the white population and emerge himself as a proud and self-determined being, who acknowledged his racial and historical background with pride. ... He wanted to show that how Blacks were regarded in society and how they viewed themselves, was the product of suppossed white social and intellectual primacy, as well as the Black's willingness to bow to the concept they were pushed into. ... (Locke, 589) He thus used the recent European interest in everything Negro to stress that, if white people took an interest in black...
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