Meanings
nounNew Negro (plural New Negroes or New Negros)
plural New Negroes · plural New Negros
- An assertive African-American pursuing political and social equality, especially during the Harlem Renaissance.
The self-assertiveness and pride of the “New Negro” was a consequence of this new self-concept.
1995, Nathan Irvin Huggins, Voices from the Harlem Renaissance, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 10
Origin
Popularized by Alain LeRoy Locke in his anthology The New Negro (1925).
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