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New Negro Movement

Movement
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

An early 20th-century cultural movement promoting racial pride, artistic expression, and civil rights among African Americans

Detailed Definition
The New Negro Movement was an early 20th-century intellectual and artistic campaign promoting racial pride, self-expression, and political activism among African Americans, closely aligned with the Harlem Renaissance; its poetry rejected minstrel stereotypes, embraced Black vernacular, and asserted cultural autonomy through innovative lyrical and formal strategies.
Example
Example in poetry:
Alain Locke’s anthology “The New Negro” (1925) defined the movement; Langston Hughes’s “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” (1926) articulated its ethos; Zora Neale Hurston’s “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” (1928) expressed cultural confidence; Aaron Douglas’s artwork and collaborations with poets visualized the movement’s ideals
Additional Notes
The New Negro Movement (1920s) emphasized racial pride, self-expression, and political agency through arts and literature; it overlaps with the Harlem Renaissance and shaped modern African American poetics.
Also Known As
Harlem Renaissance New Negro literary movement Afro-modernist awakening Black cultural assertion Harlem Renaissance (US)
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