History

The “New Negro” of the Harlem Renaissance is many things. W.E.B. Dubois attempts to express it one way as a ‘double consciousness’ – where the black man wants white Americans to appreciate his African roots and also where he want to be an American. Langston Hughes also expresses it in poetry with his 1925 poem ‘I, Too, Sing American, where he reminds his readers that while darker, he too is America. Discuss these ideas of the ‘New Negro’ and the expression of the Renaissance of celebration of being black and American too