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In his introduction to the foundational 1925 text The New Negro, Alain Locke described the Old Negro as a creature of moral debate and historical controversy, necessitating a metamorphosis into a literary art that embraced modernism and left sentimentalism behind. This was the... Read Full Overview

In his introduction to the foundational 1925 text The New Negro, Alain Locke described the "Old Negro" as "a creature of moral debate and historical controversy," necessitating a metamorphosis into a literary art that embraced modernism and left sentimentalism behind. This was... Read Full Overview