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Alain Locke Enter The New Negro Summary

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In the reading “Enter the New Negro” by Alain Locke it details the different era that blacks find themselves in along with a new mindset. Among this era emerges a group of black intellectual beings where the mindset of oppression is gone and in comes a mindset of being equal or on the same level as whites. In the past everything associated with the term “Negro” was seen as America’s punchline and was seen as a race that needed to be controlled at every turn or else they would wreak havoc like animals. Locke is quoted as saying “the Negros minds have come out of the spell of tyranny of social intimidation and implied inferiority” which at the time I am pretty sure was an astounding thing. Our minds are very powerful so much that it can change
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