English Explanatory Dictionary

New Negro

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An assertive African-American pursuing political and social equality, especially during the Harlem Renaissance.

Word forms

New Negro New Negroes New Negros

Etymology

Popularized by Alain LeRoy Locke in his anthology The New Negro (1925).

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