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New Negro, new negro U.S.
a. During the period of slavery, a Negro brought from Africa to the New World.
b. An artist belonging to the New Negro Movement, the efflorescence of Negro writing, etc., during the 1920s.
c. A Negro claiming equal status with a white American.
1701C. Wolley Two Years' Jrnl. N.-Y. 32 In Barbados new Negro's (i.e. such as cannot speak English) are bought for twelve or fourteen pound a head. 1732Calendar State Papers Amer. & W. Indies (1939) 55 Except proof were made that they were all new negroes and not been above 6 months in America. 1860S. Mordecai Virginia 350, I do not speak of the New Negroes, as the imported Africans were called, but of their descendants. 1922A. P. Randolph in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 400/1 It does not occur to the Old South that there is a ‘New Negro’; that the ‘Uncle Toms’ are passing. 1925A. Locke in Survey (N.Y.) Graphic No., 1 Mar. 632/1 The Negro is being carefully studied, not just talked about and discussed. In arts and letters, instead of being wholly caricatured, he is being seriously portrayed and painted. To all of this the New Negro is keenly responsive as an augury of a new democracy in American culture. 1953S. A. Brown in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 40/1 We go then to what is called the New Negro Movement. Ibid. 43/2 She wouldn't let anybody kick her around (something like the New Negro). 1963in J. H. Clarke Harlem (1964) 40 For a racial dilemma in Negro art, a racial solution was necessary. This came in the mid-twenties from the inspiration of the New Negro Movement with its crusade of folk expression in all of the arts. Ibid. 49 Many of the New Negroes were unwilling victims of an inverted racialistic nationalism,..priding themselves that they could sing, paint and write as well as their white-skinned patrons. |