24 Questions
Where did Alain Locke graduate from before continuing his studies in Europe as the first African American Rhodes Scholar?
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In what year did Alain Locke edit a special edition of the magazine Survey Graphic, devoted exclusively to the life of Harlem?
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What did Alain Locke later expand into an anthology, which became the manifesto of the Harlem Renaissance?
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In what year did Alain Locke capture the hope and optimism of a people who have discovered 'a new vision of opportunity'?
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According to the text, what are the three norms who have traditionally presided over the Negro problem?
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What is the mainspring of Negro life according to the text?
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What does the thinking Negro face America with, according to the text?
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What is the forced attempt to build Americanism on race values according to the text?
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What does the majority of Negroes deprecate according to the text?
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What is the struggle for recognition marked by, according to the text?
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What was a key objective of the New Negro Movement in 1925?
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What was seen as essential for cooperation and adjustment between racial groups in 1925?
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What was a crucial factor in the desire for fuller, truer self-expression among the thinking Negro?
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What did the New Negro Movement seek to achieve in American art and letters?
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What did the New Negro Movement call for in race relations?
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What was the approach advocated by the New Negro movement to fight prejudice?
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Where did constructive channels for expressing racial consciousness emerge?
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What was the center of two movements in Harlem?
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What did the wider race consciousness aim to help understand?
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What did the New Negro's internationalism aim to achieve?
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What is the main idea of the text?
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What does the text suggest about the perception of the Old Negro?
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What is suggested about the attitude towards the Negro as described in the text?
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What does the text imply about the impact of migration on the Negro population?
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Study Notes
The New Negro Emerges
- The younger generation is experiencing a new psychology and spirit, transforming the perennial problem of the Negro into progressive phases of contemporary Negro life.
- The Old Negro had become more of a myth than a man, perpetuated as a historical fiction through sentimentalism and reactionism.
- The Negro has been seen more as a formula than a human being, a social bogey or burden.
- The Negro has been induced to share the general attitude of being a social problem, focusing on controversial issues and seeing himself in a distorted perspective.
- The march of development has flanked the traditional positions of viewing the Negro, necessitating a sudden reorientation of view.
- The Negro seems to have slipped from under the tyranny of social intimidation and is shaking off the psychology of imitation and implied inferiority.
- Shedding the old chrysalis of the Negro problem represents a spiritual emancipation and a newfound self-respect and self-dependence.
- The life of the Negro community is bound to enter a new dynamic phase with renewed self-respect and self-dependence.
- The Young Negro is experiencing a spiritual shift in life attitudes and self-expression, with the promise and warrant of a new leadership.
- The Negro population shift has made the Negro problem no longer exclusively Southern, with new practical, local, and integral industrial and social problems.
- The trend of migration has been city-ward and to the great centers of industry, leading to new problems of adjustment.
- The Negro is rapidly in the process of class differentiation, making it less possible, more unjust, and more ridiculous to regard and treat the Negro en masse.
This quiz explores the concept of self-responsibility among African Americans in the face of discrimination and societal challenges, as discussed in the provided text.
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