New Negro

English

Etymology

Popularized by Alain LeRoy Locke in his anthology The New Negro (1925).

Noun

New Negro (plural New Negroes or New Negros)

  1. An assertive African-American pursuing political and social equality, especially during the Harlem Renaissance.
    • 1995, Nathan Irvin Huggins, Voices from the Harlem Renaissance, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 10:
      The self-assertiveness and pride of the “New Negro” was a consequence of this new self-concept.

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