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The new Negro 2018

By Jeffrey C. Stewart

  • African American gay men, Harlem Renaissance, Intellectual life, African American philosophers

A tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Philadelphia around the turn of the century to mentor a generation of young artists including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jacob Lawrence and call them the New Negro--the creative African Americans whose art, literature, music, and drama would inspire Black people to greatness.

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Earnest, classical in form, grave and prestige.

  • earnestironic
  • classical in formformally daring
  • gravecomic
  • unpretentiousprestige
  • character-ledplot-driven

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