Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Alain Locke
Alain Locke says "The days of 'aunties.' 'uncles,' and mammies' is equally gone." because he is trying to say that the stereotypes of the negro in the past are gone. He is trying to live up to what the New Negro should be. He wanted to get rid of what the people of his past went through and how they acted. He does not want to live the same life his aunties, uncles and mammies lived. He wanted to reinvent the African American culture. Alain Locke's "The New Negro" is all about what an African American should be from now on. He is saying that the old negro would be put down by society and wouldn't stand up for himself. He is encouraging new negros to take a stand for their rights. He was trying to instill a new philosophy in them. He wanted African Americans to realize they were equal to the whites and they did not deserve the way they had been treated in the past.
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I wouldn't say that the stereotypes of the negro in the past were completely gone at this point in time, but rather they were working hard to shrug it off. But I think you understood the message.
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Yes, I agree that they practically had to reinvent themselves for all purposes. They had undergone huge social changes and had to find out how they would exactly fit in the society where they fought for the equal opportunities that were promised by the constitution.
ReplyDeleteThe stereotypes were indeed still there. I think Locke was trying to reinvent a new social standing completely separate from the previous one, in essence changing their perception of their past as you had mentioned.
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