The New Negro

escapes, “And if you came to the house Negro and said, ‘Lets run away, let’s escape, let’s separate,’ the house Negro would look at you and say, ‘Man, you crazy. What you mean, separate? Where is there a better house than this?’(X, 400).” House negroes had the same mentality as the master himself, and X believes that the House negro mentality is still around, and that it is still oppressing blacks. “Just as the slavemaster of that day used Tom, the house Negro, to keep the field Negroes in…

Although he didn’t experience the same problems as Douglass , he endured segregation during his studies at Fisk University and Harvard University.In his article ,A Negro Schoolmaster in the New South, he shares his experience with teaching in the South while being a student at Fisk University. Before he was ready to take the position, he met with the commissioner of the school and immediately noticed racial segregation between…

“I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.” [“The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” 2-3] So goes the opening lines of Langston Hughes’ seminal poem ‘The Negro Speaks of Rivers’, and even a studious scholar may be inclined to believe him on a textual level. From the very roots of his African heritage to the streets of Harlem and New York from the 20’s to the 60’s, few writers have eclipsed Hughes’ remarkable portraits of black culture. Each of his poems…

to a place in New York called Harlem and this is where it all began. African Americans began to build a new place for themselves. This is where life for them actually blossomed, bringing many great changes. It was a time for expressing the African American culture, which was later called the Harlem Renaissance. Many things came about during the Harlem Renaissance, but there was one popular thing, poetry. The Harlem Renaissance allowed for the appearance of the realization of the Negro race that…

Robert Coles, “Children of Crisis,” Coles writes a descriptive recollection of a participant in the desegregation of Atlanta schools, while doing so Coles provides substantial amounts of evidence that illustrates the difficulty of the desegregation for Negro families. This essay was written to inform the reader of the difficulties and perseverance of the participants in the throes of the decline of segregation in southern schools while keeping the tone considerably light and positive. He begins…

Alonso Estrada HIST 1302 New York Times The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, written by James Weldon Johnson, is a story based around the life of an African American who was blessed with light colored skin. The man was seen by many individuals, and could go around, as if he were a white, normal American man. Because of this the man was treated much better than his brethren with a darker complexion, as he went unnoticed and unbothered by superficial racist people across the…

quality, the caste system isolating the community but upper-class Negroes from whites, black men and women occupations, the class system and operating in the Negro caste, and finally the Negro political activities from 1870 leading into the early…

Introduction The 1930’s is a decade that experienced one of the worst, if not the worst, economic conditions in the history the United States of America. This decade is the Great Depression era. Everyone, rich and poor, suffered during this time. People lost their homes and their jobs, mostly due to unemployment. African Americans have been considered less than their white counterparts prior to the Great Depression, and in this time of struggled their deaths could have been viewed as a benefit…

not a place of comfort for a man of color. W.E.B DuBois expresses this fact in his book The Souls of Black Folk; however, he does so through utilizing many unique writing styles. DuBois breaks his book down into different sections, each utilizing a new style of writing in order to signify the importance of black unity in order to combat the problem of the nineteenth century is none other than the “color-line.” The most prevalent styles out the large variety however are sociological, analytical,…

is Black History Month in the United States. In the mainstream media, at least in 2008, not much has been said to remind people of this fact. Perhaps it has been overshadowed by the presidential race (which itself is historical), or other celebrity news which, unfortunately, leads to ratings and ad dollars. My 10-year old son asked me - no, begged me - to write a Hub about Black History Month. In order to provide more information to him and others that are interested in the history of Black…