Portraying the New Negro in Art

From the late nineteenth century to the twentieth century, black Americans were discussing the right way to define blacks and show them to America. Leader Dubois such as Alain Lock, WEB, Marcus Garvey, founder of the University of Tuskegee Booker T. Washington is a new Negros idea that is intellectually intelligent and politically well-versed, and a social contributor to trade I have. All four influential leaders are writing papers on the performance of the new blacks and their art and life. In "arts or propaganda", rocks are serving for the purpose of artistic freedom, not for the purpose of corruption of art or excessive cultivation, and freely selecting "collective expression" or "individualistic expression" I can do it. (National Center for Humanities and Sciences

The main contribution to rock 's black art and character world is mainly from his work as a writer and writer. As a writer, he wrote many influential articles such as "New Black", "Black Youth Speech", "Black Spirits", "Legacy of the Ancestral Life". Black people These works are based on black Americans artists and scholars seeing their own views by referring to the voices of black Americans and the diversity of talent, and the basic connection between "heritage" and the continent of Africa I'm painting. In 1916 I also wrote a book named Race Contacts and Interracial Relations.

In December 1925, a collection of novels, poetry and essays on black art and literature was published under the heading "New Blacks". This is a crucial moment to awaken the politically conscious African American community. Alain LeRoy Locke, editor of this book, has created a phrase to describe the intellectual, social and artistic explosion as part of the Harlem Renaissance. "The new blacks are strongly responding to the prophecies of new democracy in American culture." "The conditions that delicately shape new blacks form a new American attitude."

Prior to the personal performance of the Harlem Renaissance, the black art of rock as its main function was accepted socially and represented a kind of black worthy of praise. The purpose of many black arts is to promote the expression of black people, civilize, become culturally, to make a useful contribution to American society, or to describe American black people as progressive people. Jim Crow liberated isolation to achieve its true potential. In fulfilling this typical function, black art was spread with stereotypes and anti-stereotypes. It constantly opposes negative depiction and relieves social pressure; trying to remove dark life and experience respectable things is a good purpose of honor and imitation. As Rock said,