The Birth Of A 'New Negro'

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Can travel change your identity? It certainly did for one man. Alain Locke, nicknamed the 'Dean of the Harlem Renaissance,' traveled back and forth between Washington, D.C. and Berlin, Germany. In doing so, he was able to completely reimagine what it meant to be black and gay in the 1920s.

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